Software ROI · Chemical distribution
A 340-employee regional chemical distributor operated seven facilities under inconsistent safety programs—each site had its own spreadsheets, inspection logs, and SDS libraries. After centralizing everything in Provisio Core, the company standardized programs across all seven sites and lifted its customer audit score from 61 to 95 in under a year.
Key result
Audit score +34 pts across 7 sites
7 facilities
Sites unified
+34 points
Audit score improvement
61 → 95 avg.
Audit score: before → after
340
Employees covered
A regional chemical distributor operated seven distribution facilities across three states. Each site had evolved its own safety program independently—separate SDS libraries, inconsistent inspection cadences, and siloed incident records. The corporate EHS coordinator spent two days before every customer audit reconstructing records that should have been available in real time. Audit scores varied by more than 20 points across sites, and corporate couldn't explain why.
A major industrial customer was requiring all suppliers to pass a site safety audit with a minimum score of 80—and two of the seven facilities were scoring below 70. The EHS coordinator had no way to identify which programs were creating the gaps, assign improvement owners across sites, or demonstrate program consistency to auditors. Getting all seven sites to a consistent, auditable standard felt like seven separate projects running in parallel.
Provisio Core was configured as a single system of record for all seven sites: unified SDS library with location-tagged inventories, shared inspection templates aligned to DOT and OSHA requirements, and a corrective-action workflow the corporate EHS coordinator could monitor across all facilities from one dashboard. Each site manager received weekly action-item digests. Pre-audit readiness reports—showing inspection completion rates, open corrective actions, and SDS currency—became a standard monthly export that site managers ran themselves before customer visits.
Within 10 months, the company's lowest-scoring site rose from 63 to 91—and the company averaged a 95 across all seven sites on its next customer audit cycle, up 34 points from its prior baseline of 61. The EHS coordinator eliminated the pre-audit fire drill: "I used to take two days before every audit just pulling records. Now I run a report in ten minutes and sites are already prepared."
“I used to take two days before every audit just pulling records. Now I run a report in ten minutes and sites are already prepared.”
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