Case Studies

 

A Fortune 50 Manufacturer

Customer Profile

A Fortune 50 Manufacturer  that is a diversified manufacturer with product offerings in aerospace and other commercial and residential applications in multiple locations in the U.S. and Canada.

Situation

Wanting to reduce their operating expenses by $500M and follow their new environmental initiative, the customer wanted a single source solution for solid waste service that would help achieve their goals.

 

One facility was serviced by one subcontractor, a hauler, for over 20 years. The customer's management had preferred to stay with the vendor as they adhered to a strict schedule for pickup of waste containers and provided further service by determining when containers were full and needed to be emptied outside of a regular schedule.

 

In addition, the hauler transported the waste to a disposal facility in which they were partners and were able to get a break in tipping fees for the plant. However, this did not provide for high levels of account management, or reduction in administrative tasks, leaving the customer with the burden.

 

Solution

  • Assessed the facilities and responded with a program to reduce hard and soft costs through consolidated billing, consistent reductions in service unit costs, online reporting, improved recycling opportunities, equipment maintenance and transitioning to EDI format for billing.
     
  • Utilized equipment through OAKLEAF’s equipment division. Provided roll-offs, front and rear load dumpsters, toters and balers. Also, conducted inspections and audits of second tier supplier facilities at the request of the customer. 
     
  • Reports for waste generation, disposal and recycling are provided on a monthly basis via e-mail and online reports for export to a worksheet. Reports were developed to customer specifications to be compatible with their internal reporting structure. Detailed cost savings reports were also developed with substantial customer input that provides summaries at the corporate, business unit and individual site levels for user-selected reporting periods. All client reporting is content-managed to restrict access to users with appropriate authority. 
     
  • OAKLEAF continues to add locations for this client, now covering a total of 22,970,500 square feet of manufacturing, distribution and sales facilities. The largest of these facilities is 5,853,067 square feet in manufacturing and warehouse area. Forty new locations have been added in one month alone, showing the ability to easily incorporate more locations as needed by the client. 
     
  • For the facility with the 20 year history of the same hauler, reviewed the invoices and noticed immediately that compactors and roll-offs were being pulled with only 25%-50% of an optimal load. Also noted was a tipping fee substantially higher than the local disposal facilities. Substituting with a hauler that had a solid history of compliance with OAKLEAF, cutting the scheduled pickups by half and changing waste disposal sites for the facility provided a perfect solution for the customer.

Working Towards Zero

For The Bottom Line

Service quality and compliance was dramatically improved and hard costs were reduced 15% over a six month period. Optimized waste program provided 8% additional soft cost savings.

 

The customer has benefited from the reduced time required at the individual location level in requesting services, integrating data from multiple suppliers for internal reporting, requesting and monitoring equipment repairs. In areas where solid waste collection is governmentally franchised, or where there are existing contract with current providers, this client is still choosing to add locations to the program for a monthly administrative fee in order to benefit from OAKLEAF'S dispatching and reporting functions.

 

For The Environment
OAKLEAF, offering service for all (RCRA) nonhazardous wastes, not just universal, and including state regulated wastes could accommodate any type of facility, from factory to office for the customer.