Why Decreasing Hauling Through Waste Compaction Can Be a Procurement Team’s Best Friend
Chances are if you’re part of a procurement team, you know a thing or two about efficiency and streamlining effective strategies. So much of the procurement process is tied to developing strong relationships, supporting organizational goals, strategizing sources, and managing risk mitigation.
Mobile waste compaction services from Smash My Trash can positively impact all of these key pillars of a successful procurement team. It’s an innovation in how a team views the waste management process tied to purchasing and receiving products. Waste compaction addresses operational costs, refines inventory management, enhances efficiency in the workplace, improves safety standards, and can help businesses reach vital sustainability goals.
Does it seem too good to be true? We’ll be taking some time to dissect why Smash My Trash and the procurement process is a match made in heaven.
What’s a Procurement Team’s Primary Role?
A procurement team is an operational department responsible for obtaining quality goods and services at competitive prices while ensuring the organization’s resources are needed to succeed. They are involved in all purchasing decisions from acquiring goods and services, to working with external suppliers and performing various functions like managing the procurement process.
Their primary purpose is to add value to an organization through successful purchasing patterns, mitigating unnecessary costs, and streamlining operations to the benefit of the business as a whole.
Understanding Mobile Waste Compaction
Mobile Waste Compaction is the process of compacting open-top dumpster waste volume through means of a mobile compaction vehicle that can travel from one dumpster location to another.
At Smash My Trash, we call our vehicle the “Smash Truck”. It features a control cab and a long extension arm that breaks down waste products with the help of a large rotating drum with teeth and side guards to protect the dumpster’s integrity. The drum uses its natural weight to compact, shred, and destroy materials inside the dumpster. In turn, this drastically reduces the waste volume inside the roll-off, allowing businesses to get more waste in every dumpster and reduce their total number of monthly hauls.
Benefits of Mobile Waste Compaction for a Procurement Team
If a procurement team brings on Smash My Trash as a new vendor, there are multiple benefits they will begin to see within the first 90 days.
The first and most important benefit is up to 70% volume reduction in total open-top waste. Though this percentage is dependent on the materials being compacted, common warehouse items like wood pallets, paper products, cardboard boxes, and Styrofoam have an extremely high compaction rate and often reach compaction volumes higher than 70%. This can lead to higher cost savings on monthly haul rates and improved operational efficiency of employees no longer waiting for the next dumpster to be delivered between hauls.
Sustainability and reduced carbon emissions are often overlooked benefits of mobile waste compaction. Due to the work of third-party research consultants, we can quantify the reduction in carbon emissions and provide actual data points pointing to individual greenhouse gases that clients can expect to reduce with our service. On average, the “default client” (details for what specifies a default client are listed here in the whitepaper created by Trinity Consultants) can see a reduction of approximately 18,000 pounds of CO2 per year by utilizing Smash My Trash Services.
Cost Benefits
According to recent customer survey data, Smash My Trash customers list “cost savings” as the main reason for utilizing our service. On average Smash My Trash customers can expect to save around 20% on their monthly waste costs. That’s factoring in the costs of our service and the average amount of reduced hauls per client. If you’re part of a procurement team, knowing that this service can improve your monthly budget can add peace of mind when adding a new vendor to weekly operations.
Sustainability Goals
Businesses are being incentivized more than ever to prove they are making a conscious effort to decrease emissions. Smash My Trash can provide customized certificates proving our service reduces harmful emissions like CO2, CH4, PM2.5, NOx, and more by eliminating the need for harmful haulers to be on the roads longer and over-hauling dumpsters. This is a great way to prove to your customers and other interested parties that having Smash My Trash as a vendor by your side is improving your carbon footprint while reducing your overall waste volume.
Inventory Management
Improving your inventory management system with Smash My Trash looks different for everyone. We’ve heard from clients that they were able to reevaluate their warehouse/yard space due to the added room in dumpsters. We’ve taken on large-scale cleanout projects compacting hundreds of empty drums, spools, pallets, and boxes. Cleaning operational space can open up opportunities for new inventory, better equipment, or a cleaner work environment.
Operational Efficiency
An operations team cannot keep things running without an accessible dumpster. Every time your team is forced to wait for a hauler to come in and replace a full open-top, you waste precious billable hours with employees standing around, potentially harming themselves climbing into full dumpsters to manually compact waste, or slowing the operation down to an inefficient pace.
Our service allows you to maintain the pace you’re used to operating at with no hiccups along the way. In some instances, we’ve seen customers be able to get 3-4 full dumpsters’ worth of waste into a single roll-off through weekly compaction schedules. Watch as operational metrics tied to productivity and efficiency rise as our service eliminates unnecessary hauls from your monthly schedule. It’s a practice that makes sense for an operations team’s busy day-to-day life.
Interested in Smash My Trash?
Being part of a procurement team comes with plenty of challenges. Managing unnecessary costs, planning inventory purchases, and streamlining operations.
Smash My Trash can help aid the success of a procurement team in the following ways:
- Improving operational efficiency by reducing dumpster waste volume
- Limiting harmful emissions and lessening businesses’ carbon footprint
- Improving inventory space through clean-outs and on-demand compaction projects
- Reducing monthly waste costs
Take the first step towards reducing monthly waste costs by implementing Smash My Trash services. Are you interested in learning more? Click the button and schedule a risk-free demo and waste assessment to see if we’re the right fit for your business.
