Sixty shelves where the energy data lived
When Tereza Kirlíková took over property and building management at Geis years ago, she needed to pull together several years of energy consumption data. The accountant led her to a hall holding roughly sixty shelves full of binders. Digging the invoices out of them took weeks.
“We realized that without digitization we couldn’t really manage those buildings. We just kept reacting to the past through invoices.”
The trigger for change was a legally required energy audit. Geis refused to treat it as a rubber stamp for the drawer. It wanted an audit that would truly describe how its buildings work, and data it could keep working with.
An audit from basement to roof
We walked all eighteen branches from basement to roof and assessed every meter along the way. The audit exposed weak spots and savings potential, and led to concrete measures: motion sensors, LED lighting and preparing photovoltaics for the hall roofs.
Above all, it created a foundation for continuous management. The audit was followed by an Enmon rollout that collects consumption data and invoices from all branches in one place.
What changed in day-to-day operations
Branch managers now see their data without phone calls and chasing paperwork. Comparing costs across locations takes a few clicks, so it is immediately obvious if the Plzeň hall heats at a higher cost than the one in Brno. And when a water pipe bursts over the weekend, a notification arrives before the fault turns into damage.
The biggest financial impact came from invoices. Using Enmon data, Geis cut its annual reserved capacities down to a baseline and buys monthly top-ups based on actual operations.
“Having all the tender data one click away is an incredible saving. And reserved capacity penalties have essentially stopped for us.”
Carbon footprint as a sales argument
Some of Geis’s clients now require carbon footprint data for their shipments, because they show it to their own customers. Energy management data has become the basis of non-financial reporting and proof that sustainability is more than a word on a website.
From Czechia across the region
The system proved itself at the Czech branches so well that Geis is rolling it out to Slovakia and Poland.
“The system’s success in the Czech Republic inspired us to bring operations across the whole CEE region under control.”