Oil Distributor keeps industry moving with a Green IT strategy
Lubricants Limited chose OneOffice from Strategis Solutions to minimise its carbon footprint...
While not a large company in a worldwide sense, Elf Oil distributor Lubricants Limited has proven that green IT and sustainability can augment business goals rather than compete with them.
“As distributors of oil products, we could easily be seen as the bęte noire of those seeking to minimise carbon emissions”, says Andrew Stewart, managing director of Lubricants.
“However lubricants, quite literally, make the world go around and we see our role as acting responsibly in providing the items that allow industry to move.” Lubricants was already a proponent of a “Reduce, Recycle, Reuse” programme. The company provides a service where it picks up waste oil and moves it on to other industries for reuse.
Lubricants freights product in bulk, then decants and packages it locally to reduce waste and energy usage. The company is also a provider of non-carbon lubricants and actively keeps abreast of this side of the market.
When examining its long-term IT strategy, Lubricants took the same sustainability-focused approach and looked to minimise energy and waste in all areas.
The company’s selection of OneOffice, a fully functional ERP system from Strategis Solutions, recognised the longer-term objectives of a green IT strategy as well as the outright functionality it required.
Lubricants examined their hardware platforms for optimal performance and energy usage.
By using Virtual Machine to allow their Linux and Windows servers to coexist on the same hardware, the number of servers was reduced and will be further reduced in the near future.
Backups are synchronised to off-site third party storage and use of Terminal Services allows data consolidation and security while keeping high processing and energy power requirements in one place.
Staff all use laptops, and wireless modems allow staff secure, “on demand” access to all the company’s systems and data.
Paper is one of the largest generators of waste in IT and Lubricants actively seeks to minimise its paper waste at all times.
One means of achieving paper minimisation is through the up-to-date performance reporting functionality available using OneOffice dashboards which enable management to examine, and drill down into, key company data.
With OneOffice, dashboards are always available and remove the need for paper-based reporting.
Similarly product data and technical documents can be made available in context screens while staff look at stock and pricing information.
Documentation supplied to customers and suppliers has also been examined and plans put in place for reduction.
Where applicable, documents are emailed as secure PDFs with copies kept in the OneOffice MediaServer for access and auditing.
These plans are being rolled out progressively as customers and suppliers become accustomed to this service.
Future plans also include integration into the company’s next generation web site and pull based documents replacing push in many cases.
“Energy usage, reusability, cost and staff productivity do not have to be in conflict”, says Stewart. “Done sensibly, we believe that all of these items can combine to make us a more responsible and profitable business.”
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At a Glance
An ERP solution capable of meeting the company’s longerterm objectives of fostering a green IT strategy, as well as meeting outright functionality requirements.
Solution
OneOffice from Strategis Solutions.
Business Benefits
OneOffice and other technology initiatives deployed by Strategis have contributed to Lubricant’s aim of extending its “Reduce, Recycle, Reuse” strategy into the IT space through achievements including paper waste minimisation and server count reduction through performance optimisation.
