Manufacturing Case Study

Global Manufacturer Achieves Unified, Audit-Ready Sustainability Reporting Across 14 Languages and Multiple ERPs

A leading equipment manufacturer with operations worldwide faced challenges when manually aggregating energy, water, and waste data from diverse primary sources.

GLYNT.AI was able to automate data collection and streamline management & reporting into their existing systems, achieving significant cost savings and improved data accuracy.

“GLYNT worked with us every step of the way, always focused on getting us the accurate, verified data we need as soon as possible.”

– Sustainability Specialist, Procurement, Global Manufacturer

Business Impact at a Glance:

100% Confidence in Management & Reporting

80% cost
savings

50% Faster
reporting cycles

10x Reduction
in Errors

1 Unified Global Data Source Across All Systems

The Challenge:

A Complex Data Landscape:

Operations spanned multiple countries with invoices in 14 different languages.
Three active and separate ERP systems, leading to fragmented data sources.

Limited Resources:

The Sustainability team comprised 1.5 full-time employees
No access to dedicated developer resources.

Entirely Manual Processes:

Team leaders manually deciphered and captured data from complex utility invoices, some containing 5 to 20 meters, into spreadsheets.

Uncertainty in Reporting:

Difficulty in aligning data correctly for carbon accounting and visualizations due to varying formats, units of measure, and terminologies.

The Solution:

Proof of Concept:

GLYNT.AI initiated a POC, demonstrating end-to-end data flow for the selected locations.
Teams forwarded utility bills for energy, water, and waste in PDF format, directly to a centralized system, eliminating manual data entry.

Automated & Granular Data Collection:

Automated processing broke down complex, multi-meter invoices into granular data.
Harmonized data across different languages and units of measure for unified reporting.

Customized Outputs:
Developed two tailored output formats

For seamless ingestion into the company’s carbon accounting software
Detailed, meter-level data for the procurement team to manage expenses effectively.

Automated Translations:
Documents in foreign languages were automatically translated during processing, ensuring consistency.

Monthly Reporting:
Established fully automated, monthly sustainability data flows, reducing the stress of last-minute reporting.

Results

Streamlined Onboarding: Full support from GLYNT.AI enabled the customer to initiate sustainability reporting, with the first data available within 5 days.

Data-driven Decisions: Sustainability team no longer relying on estimates to support decisions and project planning, now they can use actual data from their ongoing efforts.

Manual Efforts Reduced: Significant relief from manual spreadsheet work and data entry for global business managers.

Expense Management: Access to precise, verified, granular data has enhanced water and energy expense management.

Seamless Integration: Automated, verified data flows integrated into carbon accounting and other business software systems.

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