Case Study Client Situation
Our client is a State-owned corporation providing waste disposal and recycling services in the greater Sydney area. Our scope was to review how our client can maximise the value of its landfills.
Pacific Strategy Partners provided support for two distinct phases of this strategy:
- Research and analysis for Landfill Strategy Optimisation, and
- Workshops and analysis for Operational Optimisation.
Approach
- Strategy Optimisation Phase
- Internal & external research to review regulatory impact on landfill demand
- Analysis of Sydney landfill supply and competitor margins
- Analysis of Client landfill projections and modelling in @Risk software to determine probablistic ranges of excess or inadequate Client landfill capacity for each year to 2025
- Developed initiatives to allow positive outcomes for each potential scenario identified from the modelling
- Operational Optimisation Phase
- Workshops with subject matter experts to identify operational improvement ideas
- Investigation, quantification of impact and implementation timing of ideas
- Workshops to agree ideas to be implemented
Impact
Based on our strategy work, the client is pursued a number of options to deliver on opportunities or mitigate risks, including initiatives to:
- Discuss with Councils / EPA to seek site flexibility at a specific landfill site
- Build additional licensed landfill capacity
- Fast track building of AWT pre-emptively
- Continue investigating new Class 1 or 2 landfill capacity options
- Improve demand / supply forecasting
- Review pricing to optimise returns
In addition, we identified ways to reduce operating costs through implementing agreed operational optimisation ideas and more importantly a process to continuously improve operations in future.
