When one logistics company started its energy audit, they needed several years of consumption data from every branch. The accountant led the property manager into a hall holding roughly 60 shelving racks of binders. Weeks of invoice mining followed.
That is the reality of most logistics networks: every branch has a different supplier and a different contract, with invoices in binders or in depot managers' inboxes. Head office only sees the year-end total, and when the German parent company asks for network data, the answer takes a week.
Today the company has every meter from three countries in Enmon. Energy tender data exports in one click and reporting to head office is a matter of minutes, not heartburn.