Do we have to move every site at once?
No, and it is usually a poor idea. Sites transition one at a time, which keeps the disruption contained and means the second site benefits from what was learned at the first.
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05 · Program management
A multi-site operation rarely has a waste problem. It has a coordination problem: eleven plants with eleven arrangements made at different times by people who have since moved on, and no single view of what any of it costs or where any of it goes.
What is actually administered
One number to call,
whichever site it is
01
A single point of contact
Somebody who knows your sites by name. Your plant managers call the same number for a missed pickup in Ohio and a new material in Texas, and nobody has to work out who deals with what. We assign that person to your account and keep them on it.
02
Scheduling and transport coordination
Pickups built around how your plant actually runs, not around whatever route suited the hauler. When your volumes change we change the schedule, instead of letting material pile up in the yard.
03
Service follow-up, which is most of the job
Missed collections, loads turned away, broken containers — we deal with them. And we keep a record of which keeps happening, because the pattern is usually more useful than any single incident.
04
Invoice reconciliation
We compare what was charged against what was actually collected. Billing for a pickup that never happened is common and almost never deliberate. It is also only ever caught by somebody holding the two lists side by side, which is nobody's job until it is ours.
05
One reporting format
One format across all your locations, so comparing them means something. A different format per site is how a company ends up with no overall picture at all. We build the format around the sites and streams you actually have, then run every location through it.
06
Site detail kept underneath
One company-level figure does not mean losing what sits underneath it. Each location keeps its own detail and its own manager can still see it, which is what stops people arguing with the headline number. We keep both views and give each site access to its own.
What changes at the sites
As little as possible,
deliberately
An arrangement that works at one plant is worth keeping, and a transition that disrupts production to prove a point costs more than it saves. Sites come across one at a time, in the order that makes sense for your operation rather than ours.
- One point of contact across every location
- Consolidated invoicing, with site-level detail preserved
- The same reporting format everywhere
- Exceptions handled without the site chasing them
- Documentation retained per site and per shipment
- A standing review of what the portfolio is actually doing
Questions
Asked most often
Can we keep arrangements that already work?
Yes. Replacing a working arrangement to tidy up an org chart is change for its own sake. Where a site has something good, it stays and is coordinated alongside the rest.
What does the reporting actually look like?
Per site and consolidated, covering what moved, where it went and how it was handled, with the basis behind the diversion figures attached rather than implied. If a number cannot be explained, it should not be in a report.
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Where this connects
Scope is yours to setThis can be taken on at one site, for one stream, or across a full portfolio. Starting small carries no condition about the rest, and scope can move in either direction afterwards.
Start at one site
One location, run properly, is the only honest way to find out whether the rest of the portfolio should follow.