Thiess Pty Ltd Reduces Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Time from Months to Minutes
 
 

Thiess Pty Ltd Reduces Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Time from Months to Minutes

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Established in 1934, Thiess Pty Ltd is a leading mining, construction, and services organization with operations across Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the United Arab Emirates. As well as undertaking mining projects, the company’s construction and engineering operation builds infrastructures for roads, railways, and busways, and constructs dams and water infrastructures, pipelines, and power projects. Its services arm operates utilities, waste, and facilities management.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Thiess Pty Ltd

  • “Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Environmental Accounting and Reporting enabled us to generate accurate greenhouse and energy reports almost instantaneously. We are now able to monitor our carbon emissions and easily meet NGER reporting requirements.” – Ian Wade, Executive General Manager, Thiess Business Services

  • Accurately measure and monitor the company’s carbon footprint across its diverse range of engineering and construction projects
  • Replace laborious, time-consuming spreadsheets used to produce sustainability reports, which present CO2 emissions and electricity and fuel consumption, as well as company safety and other nonfinancial information, with detailed, accurate, and integrated computer-generated reports
  • Reduce human error and save on staffing costs by removing the need to employ extra people to gather and collate sustainability report data every year
  • Comply with the Australian government’s national greenhouse and energy reporting (NGER) Act by collecting and presenting detailed CO2 emissions and energy information every year

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Implemented Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Environmental Accounting and Reporting to quickly generate more detailed sustainability reports and meet NGER reporting requirements and deadlines
  • Reduced time taken to generate data for sustainability and NGER reports from three to four months to almost instantaneously
  • Improved the accuracy of sustainability reports from a 20% error margin to 1% to 2%, by automating the data gathering and reporting process and reducing the risk of human error
  • Reported accurate breakdown of energy consumption and emissions, such as electricity, gas, and fuel, by integrating JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financials data from purchase orders and inventory
  • Removed the need to hire temporary staff to gather greenhouse and energy consumption data and manually calculate CO2 emissions
  • Enabled mining and construction project managers to generate energy consumption graphs and reports to help make informed decisions on how to reduce carbon emissions