Landfill Services | Market, Trends, Growth | Suppliers Analysis

Strategic Sourcing Guide to Landfill Services Procurement

Overview

Business practices within Landfill Services market are heavily influenced by changing trends across the category as well as within the broader Waste Management Services market. Regulatory scrutiny is demanding periodic upgrade of Landfill Services infrastructure in multiple geographies. Increasing compliance costs are also acting as a catalyst in the final procurement cost borne by buyers of Landfill Services.

Supplier evaluation and performance management is now being driven by select KPIs that serve as hard evidence to support cost reduction and compliance. Suppliers of Landfill Services are developing targeted KPI matrix that help with actionable data on their performance and cost savings they achieved for the customer.

Most suppliers of Landfill Services are moving up the value chain and offering integrated services that go beyond just Landfill Services. Buyers are increasingly collaborating with vendors who can offer one-stop solutions as they now have fewer suppliers to manage and can achieve greater cost savings that arises out of awarding a larger contract to a supplier.

As a result, category managers need to closely monitor the Landfill Services procurement trends and identify changes required in their procurement environment for the category.

Landfill Services Procurement Best Practices

As market conditions become more dynamic and procurement practices get more sophisticated, category managers need to be cognizant of the best practices that work for their Landfill Services category procurement. The report offers a succinct analysis of Landfill Services procurement best practices.

For example, Buyers should analyze the type and volume of waste generated by their operations at different locations and ensure that the concerned suppliers have the operational capability to handle the waste profile of their organization.

Timely monitoring and inspection of waste management systems, processes or equipment is critical in taking the contract renewal decisions. A dedicated team of experts from the buyer's organization should conduct timely reviews and inspection to assess the performance of current solutions and use those intervention points to better negotiate at the time of contract renewal.

Buyers prefer engaging with suppliers that have a regional presence. Such engagement helps buyers to avail volume-based discounts due to consolidation of solutions across multiple locations within a single region.

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Risks in Landfill Services procurement

Landfill Services procurement managers also need to proactively identify and mitigate potential risks that can arise in the supply chain or contracts for Landfill Services procurement. Some examples include:

The category is capital intensive. The capital expenditure of category service providers could increase in case of business acquisitions or expansion of operations. Capital expenses can also be brought about by factors such as changes in governmental regulations. The spend of category service providers on their capital expenditures may exceed their expectations, which can result in their need to acquire additional funding for their operations
Procurement without consulting the actual users of Landfill Services may result in a mismatch in expectations of the buyer's internal stakeholders versus the actual contract executed
Service providers rely on fuel for the operation of various equipment during their operations. Fuel supply shortage or price fluctuations due to factors such as international political and economic events can increase the operating expense of category service providers. Service providers also susceptible to increase in indirect fuel surcharges from their vendors

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Who should read this report

The report is intended to serve as a one-stop reference guide for Landfill Services procurement strategy and offers a perfect blend of category basics with deep-dive category data and insights. Therefore, it is ideal for category beginners looking for “Landfill Services: Procurement Report 101” as well as for category experts actively tracking the global Landfill Services procurement market.

You may have just initiated your research to design a winning Landfill Services procurement strategy, or you may be a category expert looking for strategic insights and updated data.Either ways, the report has your requirements covered.

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Key questions on Landfill Services procurement answered by this report

Procurement decisions can prove to be costly in the absence of careful deliberation and evaluation of every available option. In fact, more than 90% of the decision makers we work with acknowledge that timely availability of up-to-date category intelligence can help them make better purchasing decisions. More than 80% of them believe that in-house category intelligence needs to be updated periodically to achieve full benefits. If you have read so far, we are quite sure you agree!!

The Landfill Services procurement report helps take more informed decisions by placing all the critical information and advice at the fingertips of a decision maker. It also specifically answers some of the key questions that we have been routinely asked during our industry outreach initiatives:

What is the spend potential in the Landfill Services market?
What is the correct price to pay for Landfill Services? What are the key trends and factors that influence current and future pricing?
Which selection criteria are the most important for Landfill Services Suppliers Market?
Who are the top Landfill Services suppliers? What are their cost structures?
Which negotiation levers can reduce Landfill Services procurement cost ?
What are supplier margins in Landfill Services market?
What are the best practices for Landfill Services procurement and what are the potential risks?

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Landfill Services Category Insights: What is inside

The Landfill Services market report offers a complete picture of the supply market and analyzes the category from the perspective of both buyers and suppliers. Analysis of the category trends, procurement best practices, negotiation levers and overall category management strategy advisory are interspersed with in-depth data and commentary on spend outlook, pricing ecosystem and supplier landscape drilled down to a region-level coverage.

Data

A key highlight of this report is the in-depth outlook created on Landfill Services procurement spend and pricing trends. The report further delves deep into the aspects of cost structure, total cost of ownership and supplier margins for Landfill Services. A dedicated section to supplier profiles and evaluation helps decision makers cast a wider procurement net and identify gaps in existing relationships.

Insights

Along with specific category and supplier intelligence, the publication also includes curated insights on Landfill Services market trends, price influencers and inherent risks. These insights help the decision makers prepare for market shaping trends in advance and create alternative strategies for changes in the market conditions.

Advisory

Additionally, the report also advises on the best practices and strategies to manage the Landfill Services category efficiently. Negotiation levers and opportunities are explained in detail along with quantification of their potential. Benchmark KPIs for supplier and buyer performance management are also aggregated to better organize the category objectives. Other themes of advisory include ideal procurement organization structure, enablers to achieve KPIs or category objectives and ideal SLAs to have with suppliers.

Category Ecosystem

Buyer and supplier ecosystem
Competitiveness index
Buyer and supplier power
Threat of new entrants and substitutes

Global and Regional Sourcing Insights

Category spend
Spend growth
Dynamics
Opportunities

Pricing and Cost Analysis

Pricing outlook and data
Drivers of pricing
Cost structure and inputs cost
Total cost of ownership
Pricing models and margins

Cost Saving Opportunities & Negotiation Strategies

Buyer and supplier side levers
Quantified cost saving opportunities
Negotiation strategies and quantified outcome

Procurement Best Practices, Strategy and Enablers

Procurement excellence
Sustainability and innovation
KPIs and category enablers
Risk management and outsourcing

Vendor Analysis

RFx essentials and selection criteria
SLAs
Supplier evaluation metrics
Detailed supplier profiles

Our research is complex, but our reports are easy to digest. Quantitative analysis and exhaustive commentary is placed in an easy to read format that gives you an in-depth knowledge on the category without spending hours to figure out “what does it mean for my company?”

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Category Research Framework

SpendEdge presents a detailed picture of Landfill Services procurement solutions by way of study, synthesis, and summation of data from multiple sources. The analysts have presented the various facets of the market with a particular focus on identifying the key category influencers. The data thus presented is comprehensive, reliable, and the result of extensive research, both primary and secondary.