When working on new projects, we try to create solutions which will not only contribute to the economic success of the Company but also yield measurable environmental effects. We do not limit ourselves to production and product utilisation related activities. We appreciate and make use of the possibilities of limiting the environmental impact and at the same time of reducing costs in administrative processes. The most common measures are efforts to reduce paper use and the consumption of electricity and other media.
In 2008, we completed the SOWA project, which streamlined the operation of financial and accounting processes through the introduction of electronic invoices and other accounting documents. Its added value is the elimination of multiple printing or photocopying of several hundred thousand documents a year, as all approving of or insight into documents is done via a special, dedicated application.
Another initiative with a similar goal was the introduction of so-called scattered print. As a result, we significantly reduced paper use thanks to the general availability of scanners and means of digital distribution of documents, such as electronic mail. Another source of savings were billings of the number of copies printed by respective employees.
Yet another project aimed at reducing paper consumption was the “Manager and Employee Self Service” project, which replaced paper forms with electronic communication. Currently, employee issues, such as holiday leave requests, business trips or bonus requests, are fully processed via a dedicated application.
Additionally, the latest technological solutions support energy consumption optimisation. An initiative whose goal was to introduce virtual hardware environments, enabled the efficient use of the existing IT environment resources (calculating capacity and disk space), at the same time reducing electricity consumption and heat production by servers. This was possible due to disconnecting over one hundred physical servers and replacing them with a highly efficient and flexible virtual environment.
The Company, striving to create optimum working conditions for its employees, makes it possible for personnel to work from home, where appropriate, by providing safe, remote access to the Company’s network resources (electronic mail, file servers and intranet). Provided that an employee’s duties make this method of work feasible, they may work wherever they are connected to the Internet. Work from home is economically and environmentally beneficial, as it reduces the need to use means of transport to physically get to work.
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