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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:

Reduced Tasks:

GLYNT.AI laid out the streamlined workflow, demonstrating end-to-end automation and compliance
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:

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.

The 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.