GS Caltex to Set Up Digital Platform Environment by Introducing M365

President Huh Se-hong of GS Caltex.

GS Caltex plans to build digital platform environment in cooperation with Microsoft to achieve deep transformation in changing of working.

GS Caltex said on June 16 the company established foundation for digital platform environment by introducing the Microsoft 365 (M365) designed to max out work productivity and document management efficiency and keep high security levels companywide.

M365 is a total business cloud service that can offer diverse digital work support solutions such as Outlook, Teams and OneDrive as well as strong security device management functions on top of the office software product “Office 365.”

GS Caltex declared the Year 2022 as a first year of carrying out deep transformation, meaning fundamental changes, and the company has been stepping on the gas to execute it in business and digital sectors in earnest.

M365, introduced by GS Caltex, is part of the company’s deep transformation. A pilot project, launched in early this year, has built digital work environment.

The introduction of M365 is expected to improve work flow and dramatically upgrade connectivity of each work area by creating a creative work environment such communication, conference, document and security by ramping up productivity and efficiency based on a work environment of the integrated “Modern Work” method.

The integrated “Modern Work” method is a horizontal and futuristic work environment, a departure from the conventional work environment.

If a collaborative system based on the M365 is built, staffs will be able to attend a meeting at the same environment at any place and at any time regardless of devices.

Employees with GS Caltex work using the M365 system. (Photos: GS Caltex)

In particular, GS Caltex has built more advanced document security system by employing the nation’s top security level E5 license packages companywide.

A certification system designed to determine users, contact location, device information and conditions can manage work devices in a safe fashion, thus protecting sensitive inside data from a risk of outside leakage and allowing document writers to trace and retrieve their documents.

Lee Jae-joon, head of GS Caltex DX Center, said, “The application of M365 will build “Anywhere, Anytime, Any device” (AAA) environment.”

The change of working is designed to raise productivity and prioritize securing the safety of customer services, he added.

GS Caltex plans to design so that other companies’ services can be integrated and managed through security upgrade and expand a security system to one capable of detecting and shutting outside dangers and employing cloud apps.

GS Caltex Ramps Up Supply Network ESG Management

GS Caltex has stepped up ESG management of supply chains targeting its cooperative companies, subsidiaries and overseas operations.

GS Caltex said on June 30 the company will conduct an expanded ESG evaluation of supply chains of 331 core cooperative companies for four months.

The move is part of the company’s efforts to preemptively comply with EU Commission’s guideline on due diligence for EY businesses to address the risk of forced labor in their operations and supply chains.

The evaluation will check each cooperative company’s policy, execution and compliance of each category.

Evaluation questions consist of four areas — human rights and labor, safety/health, environment, ethics and management system, reflecting Korean and foreign ESG trends.

In 2018, GS Caltex established a code of conducts targeting its cooperative companies and conducted a pilot project of evaluating supply chain ESG.

The number of cooperative companies who undergo ESG evaluations expanded to 107 in 2020, 316 in 2021 and 331 this year.

GS Caltex has strengthened a supply chain management system as the company conducted an ESG evaluation of its subsidiaries and overseas operations related directly to production in May prior to the latest evaluation.