One of the more difficult parts of managing waste costs is ensuring that services align with needs. With production levels being the primary driver of any facilities’ needs, your invoice is the key to unlocking expense management, which is why invoice auditing should be an important part of your process.
An invoice is a report. But it’s a report that can tell you much about your facility’s operational well-being. Resource efficiency, performance relative to sustainability goals, and financial health can all be gleaned from a waste invoice. Increases in waste costs are often positive indicators of increased production. But they can also point to changes in your contract status or to mistakes on the part of a vendor’s clerk mistakenly keying in an extra service or even a well-meaning colleague duplicating an on-call service.
Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for a vendor to input computer-generated, across-the-board price increases that often go unnoticed by customers for months or even years. Cumberland’s Professional Services team has the experience to assess your facility’s waste invoices and recycling statements to recommend immediate steps to remediate errors as well as more in-depth analysis to help transform your service contracts into assets that serve your and your vendor’s bottom lines.
At Cumberland Recycling, we are here to help with all of your invoice auditing and management needs. Our years of experience allow us incredible insight to help take your business to the next level!