TRANSFORMING FOR RESILIENCE

HELP

HINDER

  • Optimal feedstock deployment
  • Ensuring strong cybersecurity
  • Restoring trust and credibility
  • Enhancing leadership focus to improve collaboration across more streamlined operating model
  • A strong balance sheet to fund the transition
  • Delivering FY25 priorities ensuring cash flow resilience that enables Future Sasol
  • Operational underperformance and delivery
  • Local infrastructure, utilities and logistics negatively impacting feedstock availability, product dispatch and customer centricity
  • Market volatility, geopolitical uncertainty, and disruption
  • Inability to retain current talent to stabilise core operations
  • Declining cash flows

Why this is a Material Matter

Without a strong foundation business, that our stakeholders have faith in, we will not be able to transition to Future Sasol.

We know how our business needs to respond to ensure that as we strengthen our foundation business, it is more resilient into the future.

Group top priority

Safe, efficient and reliable operations and cash generation

Impact of Material Matter

  • Financial stability
  • Operational stability ensuring optimum returns
  • Earnings
  • Reputation
  • Trust and credibility
  • Sustainability

OPPORTUNITIES

  • Position the organisation to be future fit
  • Deliver shared value and growth
  • Promote innovation
  • Enhance our reputation

 

Risk

SHORT-TERM BUSINESS RESILIENCE AND VIABILITY

GROUP TOP RISK 1: FINANCIAL

EMPLOYEE VALUE PROPOSITION

GROUP TOP RISK 3: PEOPLE

Mitigating actions

  • Delivering on Sasol 2.0 targets
  • Attending to operational stability
  • Group financial market risk management policy, processes and frameworks (includes hedging) and environmental, social, governance (ESG) – linked financing framework developed
  • Group assumptions, budgeting, forecasting and scenario analysis processes with Sasol 2.0 full potential initiatives
  • Creating financial headroom by optimising cash flow including margin improvement and cost containment initiatives – balance sheet management and protection, including management of financial risk appetite and tolerance metrics
  • Culture of inclusion and care is driven across all regions, with tailored communication to address employee concerns as new issues arise

Metrics

Short term

Medium term

Long term

  • Improving cash fixed cost
  • Uplifting gross margin
  • Managing working capital
  • Optimising capital expenditure
  • Maintaining a reasonable employee turnover rate
  • Customer engagement analysis