Manufacturers Waste Management Is a Moral and Economic Imperative.
Learn How Small and Growing Manufacturing Companies Move Towards This Environmental and Economical Model.
Did you know that Americans produce 4.5 pounds of waste per person each day? With over 330 million people living in the United States, that number is staggering! You may be questioning this since you likely do not throw away nearly 5 pounds of garbage on any given day. That is because nearly all of America’s waste (97%) is produced through industrial processes (1). The United States produces around 236 million tons of municipal solid waste every year, and while the numbers for industrial waste are not totally clear, some estimates go as high as 7.6 billion tons produced annually (2). This has significant economic impacts as well. On average, for each ton of garbage, it costs $30 to recycle, $50 to send it to landfill, and $75 to incinerate it (1). With manufacturers generating millions of waste annually, imagine how quickly these costs add up! Furthermore, waste has a two-fold cost to businesses, once when you purchase and process the waste materials, and when you dispose of them. This shocking level of waste can be significantly reduced. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that 75% of the US waste stream is recyclable, but only 30% is recycled (2).
Manufacturers Waste Management
With the new legislation, pressure from consumers to create sustainable manufacturing processes, and overall corporate responsibility, reducing waste is an issue that small and midsize manufacturers must address. However, according to Gartner, 35% of companies still lack formal corporate supply chain sustainability goals, while another 49% of respondents said their companies did have such goals (3). The future of sustainability is looking brighter as supply chain professionals are beginning to see the financial benefits. For Manufacturers Waste Management most of them plan to invest in waste reduction, ethical sourcing, water-efficiency improvements, and carbon emission reduction over the next 18 months, with waste reduction and water-efficiency improvements seen to have the greatest fiscal benefits (3).
“FDA regulatory standards require traceability, which includes not only the components and finished goods, but the ability to audit the entire process from cradle to grave. SAP Business One facilitates all of this, giving us the visibility we need to achieve our rigorous QA standards and meet all FDA guidelines.”
– Justin Ku, Administration & Operations Coordinator, Swabplus
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Denise Ost, Chief Operating Officer, Goodwill Industries, San Joaquin Valley
The good news is that SAP Business One’s Sales Analysis capabilities enabled us to evaluate the results of that campaign and then make adjustments for future promotions. Specifically, we can check the number of transactions, discount levels and net gain or loss per promotion and per location. We have to be very careful with how we spend our precious marketing dollars and the new system gives us the tools to optimize our investment in that area.
Jason Dugan, CFO, Trudeau Distributing Company
Softengine has been a key contributor to our rollout of SAP Business One. The company’s consultants were excellent and helped ensure that we had a successful implementation.
Leonard Kang, Operations Manager, Christopher Lena
We decided to find a partner we could put our trust in. Softengine is very experienced and systemized in its approach. We were very confident we’d made the right choice. Small businesses might be intimidated by SAP software. What they don’t realize is that SAP offers solutions designed specifically for small to midsize companies like ours.
Ray Lacorte, VP of Operations, Choice Organic Teas
We feel like we are in great hands with Softengine and the SAP Business One system they installed. It’s nice to finally put all those unreliable ERP systems and redundant procedures in the rear-view mirror.
Justin Ku, Administration & Operations Coordinator, Swabplus
The Softengine team was able to tailor SAP Business One to deliver all the traceability Swabplus needed, including all the applicable reports. Softengine enhanced the core system to enable creation of new batch numbers if components don’t already have them and the option of batch-costing. They also added fields for escalation dates, expiration dates and additional inspection data (e.g., who inspected and when), which could be incorporated into each Certificate of Analysis.
Virginia J. Gregorian, COO, Turbo Wholesale Tires
Our experience with Softengine has been extremely positive. Any time we call for assistance, they always assign someone who’s highly professional and gets the job done quickly. Interestingly enough, I’ve become so much more educated about IT-related matters since working with the Softengine team on this project. Every time we need to upgrade the system, they walk me though all the steps to make sure that I completely understand what’s happening, which contributes to the overall success of the upgrade. It’s been a pleasure to work with them.
