Real-Time Savings: How Tracking Waste Overages Unlocks Cost Efficiency
RESTAURANT CASE STUDY
A quick-service restaurant with 400+ locations worked with WATS to identify cost savings opportunities. Their waste operations team was at full capacity managing waste service payments. With the help of WATS, they could automatically track overages and extract actionable insights.
“The ability to automatically extract and analyze waste invoice data has been a game-changer—helping us take control of overages and drive real cost savings.”
— Waste Compliance Specialist
4,035
Invoices processed by WATS
$170,000
Projected savings goal in 2025
BUSINESS TYPE
Quick-service restaurant
BUSINESS DETAILS
407 sites analyzed
4,035 invoices processed
$380,574 overage costs identified
55 sites identified with over $2k in overages
Challenge
Managing waste operations across a large portfolio comes with significant financial risks, particularly when it comes to overages.
In 2024, overage fees totaled over $380,000 across more than 400 sites.
Solution
Leveraging our insights engine, WATS ingested and analyzed 12 months of waste invoices, automatically extracting overage details and delivering key quantitative insights for each site.
This seamless data processing enabled stakeholders to pinpoint inefficiencies, uncover cost-saving opportunities, and implement strategic waste management decisions.
Results
With WATS' data-driven approach, the client gained a comprehensive view of waste operations, allowing them to:
Identify 55 high-impact sites with excessive overages.
Establish a realistic goal of reducing overages by at least 1/3 in 2025, translating to approximately $127,000 in savings.
Enhance visibility and control over waste expenses through automated data extraction and reporting.
As WATS continues to automatically ingest invoices and analyze the waste data in real time, the client can proactively address overages, review and optimize waste operations, and make smarter, more cost-effective decisions.