Case Study: Orion Engineered Carbons achieves streamlined global SOX compliance and increased visibility with Workiva

How Orion Gained Control Over Their SEC Reporting

Orion Engineered Carbons struggled with a fragmented SOX compliance process that relied on desktop documents and spreadsheets shared by email and thumb drive. The approach lacked transparency and version control, was time-consuming to maintain, and made collaboration between teams in Germany, Asia‑Pacific and North America difficult.

Orion moved its SOX program to Workiva’s cloud platform, bringing 120+ users into a single system with linked risk and control matrices, comment/task collaboration, and built‑in dashboards and reports. The result was immediate: up‑to‑date documentation in one place, better global collaboration, increased visibility into testing, time savings that enabled deeper analysis, and a fast, low‑effort rollout supported by dedicated customer success.

Orion Engineered Carbons

Udo Burger

Manager Business Process Controls