Over 100 mandatory reports per year, fully automated
A mid-sized construction company automated its entire report generation — from data source to the finished Word document on SharePoint.
By Oliver Bührer | January 2026
€40–80k
estimated annual savings
100+
reports automated
Per report
Hours
Before
One click
After
One site manager freed up, growth unlocked
A mid-sized construction company had to produce over 100 mandatory technical reports a year — at least one per project. A site manager spent almost his entire working year on them: pulling data together, pasting analyses into Word, formatting.
SimplifieD Solutions automated the whole process end-to-end. The reports are now generated at the push of a button and land finished on SharePoint. The site manager is back to doing real skilled work.
Four problems with manual reports
A nightmare of routine work
Pull data, build analyses, paste into Word, caption, format — across hundreds of pages per report.
A skilled person in the wrong role
An experienced site manager spent almost his entire year on documentation instead of managing sites.
Growth blocked
Every new project = one more report. Headcount capacity directly capped the growth of the business.
Error-prone
Hundreds of pages, dozens of charts from different sources — wrong date ranges, swapped data, formatting errors.
How the automated report pipeline works
Reads project data straight from the source
For each project, the relevant measurement data, project time windows and analyses are pulled automatically.
Generates professional charts automatically
Line, bar, and temperature charts are scaled, labelled and exported as high-resolution images.
Produces print-ready Word reports
Charts and analyses are inserted automatically into Word templates — with numbered captions, section breaks, and all the metadata.
Notifies the team when reports are ready
Finished reports land on SharePoint and the team is notified via Microsoft Teams — including when something fails.
Processes multiple reports in parallel
Over 100 reports are handled via a job queue — not one after the other by hand, but in parallel, automated.
Before vs. after
| Metric | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Report per project | Hours to days of manual work | Minutes — fully automated |
| Reports per year | Over 100, all by hand | Over 100, all automated |
| Site manager time committed | Almost the entire working year | Almost entirely freed up |
| Charts per report | Copied in manually, one by one | Generated automatically, consistent |
| Error rate | Structural due to manual work | Eliminated via automated pipeline |
| Scalability | Every new project = a growth cap | Arbitrary volume, no extra headcount |
400–800h
manual work saved per year
€40–80k
estimated annual savings
“Our site manager spent almost the whole year just producing reports — pulling data, dropping in charts, formatting. Now he’s back to doing what we hired him for. And we can finally take on new projects without immediately needing to hire.”
— Managing Director, Construction
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