RETAIL CLOUD
CLIENT
Coles is one of Australia’s leading retailers, with over 1,800 retail outlets nationwide. They employ more than 120,000 team members, engage with over 8,000 suppliers, and welcome millions of customers through their store network and digital platforms every week.
CHALLENGE
Teams had to manually manage the addition and removal of internal and external project members in Autodesk Construction Cloud. This task often required 3-4 team members to handle the system, including adding organisations, user profiles, and permissions to the appropriate folders. This process was time-consuming and prevented staff from focusing on document administration tasks.
HOW AUTONOMATION SOLVED IT
AUTONOMATION has developed a desktop application that directly interfaces with ACC. This app serves as a bulk uploading tool for Coles Express and Coles Supermarkets, each of which operates separate cloud hubs. Users can log in and utilise these tools to manage up to 2,000 cloud-hosted BIM projects. The app supports both single and bulk uploads and can integrate with spreadsheets as needed.
Additionally, the app features a bulk project update function. This function syncs with a template folder to verify that project folder structures on the hub are consistent. It then reports any discrepancies and can push new folders and permissions to projects based on the updated template.
CLIENT OUTCOME SUCCESS
This administrative management system allowed project managers to focus more on information management rather than manual tasks. The previous requirement of 3-4 team members has been reduced to just one staff member, who handles these tasks at the end of the week. This change frees up the other team members to return to their document administration roles.