International Manufacturing and Services Company - Customer Story
The Challenge
The Global Director of Safety and Sustainability at a publicly traded international manufacturing and services company had finally decided that relying primarily on Excel, shared folders, and email was no longer a viable way to manage sustainability reporting for the business.
For the past five years, he had been providing disclosures to multiple sustainability reporting standards and frameworks, including CDP and GRI, across four major business units. With over 200 locations in eight countries, the Director had to navigate many different systems and procedures making the task to report incredibly time consuming.
The Evaluation
“I just want to be able to get sustainability data into a single place without having to send a million emails,” lamented the Global Director of Safety and Sustainability in a meeting with IsoMetrix. When evaluating sustainability management software solutions, there needed to be methods for collecting both HR and environmental data that could be calculated into GHG emissions.
What impressed the Director was Lumina’s versatility to gather data with multiple automated and semi-automated methods like API integrations, spreadsheet uploads, and digital forms. Another benefit was improved auditability with the ability to include attachments and view change history and calculations for every data point.
Data analysis has also improved with better performance visibility at every level of the manufacturing company, helping to inform business strategy.
The Results
Wasting no time, the mining company moved most of its ESG management processes onto IsoMetrix Lumina. The ease with which it was able to create digital forms and schedule them for recurring data collection significantly reduced the twin manual burdens of outreach and data gathering reminders from across the organization and its partners.
Over the years, the mining company had developed proprietary formulas for carbon calculations that dealt with its specific operations. Being able to upload these custom formulas without the need for special services was a huge relief, as many other ESG and carbon accounting offerings required custom work at additional expense to integrate any custom calculations.
When the mining company began to enter its GRI and SASB data, it realized how much time was saved and complexity was reduced with the linked indicator libraries that aligned data inputs to the reporting standards. This meant the GRI and SASB reports would automatically update any time relevant data was added to the solution.
Using Lumina has significantly reduced many of the manual burdens the mining company experienced when producing its initial ESG reports. With more than 60 users across four countries managing different parts of ESG data collection, governance, and compliance disclosures, the mining company is now looking forward to producing its first end- to-end ESG report using IsoMetrix Lumina.