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landfill to substitute sand as a building material in, for example,
road and dike construction. The plant came on stream in the second
half of 2016
. Please refer to our CSR report for more information.ICT
In the past year we made great strides in rolling out the new
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, which has led to better
integration of our processes in the areas of finance, logistics and
project management. In view of the different requirements for the
Dredging & Inland Infra division on the one hand and Offshore
Energy division on the other, ERP programs Infor LN and SAP are
being used respectively. The new ERP system optimizes our
planning and procurement methods and gives us an immediate
overview of the administrative and financial processing of all our
internal resources.
Furthermore, major steps were taken with the development of the
Seacrew program, aimed at the planning of operational staff and
crews. Within Dredging the program is also used to plan the work
of the international operational pool including project managers.
An online system offering digital courses and enabling online
reporting of training results was developed for the Learning &
Development department. In 2016 work also started on
developing a new time registration system, which will be
completed in 2017 within the framework of our ERP system.
The efficiency of our ICT infrastructure improved considerably in
2016 thanks to the organization-wide switch to cloud services.
Switching to ‘the cloud’ brings considerable benefits to many
aspects of our business operations. As well as providing greater
flexibility in our ICT services it also guarantees better protection of
our company data against cybercrime. Moreover it enhances the
accessibility of our network and ICT applications worldwide.
The Union Bear marks the successful installation of The Ocean Cleanup’s prototype
on the North Sea with water fountains. Boskalis is one of the main sponsors of this test.
