What is Rightsizing?
Our waste metering technology identifies the ideal service schedule for front load containers and highlights opportunities for cost savings and reducing the risk of overflow.
How We Generate Recommendations
Our algorithm reviews 5-10 weeks of data until we're sure we've gathered enough for every day of the week. We analyze fill rate ranges on each day of the week until we're confident we have an understanding of filling patterns and overflow risk. Our algorithm has a conservative approach to overflows to ensure we're making the right recommendation, and can recommend an increase in pickups to mitigate overflow risk.
Why Doesn’t a Container Have a Recommendation?
If the container’s current schedule is already optimized, no recommendation will be made, but as new data comes in, we will refresh our analysis daily.
If the container does not have a service schedule, we will not make a rightsizing recommendation. Click here to learn how to add a schedule. The container will be eligible for a recommendation the day after a schedule is added.
If the container is not matched to a location, we will not make a rightsizing recommendation. The container will be eligible for a recommendation the day after it is added to a location.
If the container has not received at least 15 clear images per day of week from its current location, we will not make a rightsizing recommendation.
Estimating Potential Monthly Savings
If the current schedule has a price, estimated potential monthly savings is determined by multiplying that price by the percent change in days of the recommendation. Example: If the current schedule's price is $90/month and the recommendation is to reduce service from 3 days to 2 days, the estimated savings will be $30.
If the current schedule does not have a price, we leverage industry data to assume a monthly price of the current schedule and multiply it by the percent change in days of the recommendation to estimate potential monthly savings. Click here to learn how to add pricing.
In reviewing these recommendations, it's important to remember that our analysis is based on historical data. So we update our recommendations every 4 weeks, or more frequently if the location changes or the service schedule changes, in order to keep the recommendations as up to date and consistent as possible.
Important Best Practices: Compology recommends you layer on your knowledge of the customer relationship and environment when validating and implementing rightsizing recommendations.
How to View & Take Action on Rightsizing Recommendations
There are two ways to navigate to your rightsizing recommendations:
Waste Metering - Rightsizing - Easily view the potential savings from open recommendations grouped by customer, location, or hauler
Containers Page - Filter for all open recommendations and view collection data of each container
Waste Metering - Rightsizing
Changing service schedules can require some coordination with your locations and haulers, so grouping and sorting recommendations by customer, location or hauler will help identify the biggest potential savings and simplify the implementation process. Using the Waste Metering - Rightsizing page, view by the grouping that makes the most sense for your operations. For example, group by customer to identify the recommended schedule changes by account. Or you may want to view it by hauler so you can narrow down to a list of changes the hauler should implement.
Filter and sort as needed and then click “Drill Down” to see the individual recommendations for that grouping, or view by “Containers” to see all recommendations.
Viewing by container will show all the current container details, the recommended schedule and potential savings.
Containers with a recommendation will show when the recommendation was made. We include this to help determine if the recommendation is new, or one you may have already started reviewing with your locations or haulers.
Containers with “insufficient data” will indicate an estimate of when enough data is expected to be available to surface a recommendation.
Containers not matching to a location consistently or experiencing a significant amount of “obstructed” images can delay a recommendation being made.
Once a new schedule has been established and implemented with your hauler, click the blue check to update the schedule to what was agreed upon.
If a recommendation could not be implemented, click the red ‘X’ to dismiss the recommendation. Our analysis will continue and a new recommendation could show up in as soon as 4 weeks.
Downloading Data
You can export the rightsizing recommendations in CSV format by clicking the "Download" button in the upper right corner of the screen. Currently, clicking this download button (on any Waste Metering view) will only export a full list of all containers and their associated rightsizing recommendation or other recommendation status (e.g. "Insufficient Data"). The export does not currently include any filters you may have applied and will not export the roll-up views for Haulers, Locations or Customers, but you'll be able to recreate these views when working in a spreadsheet application.
Containers Page - Rightsizing
If you want to review each container individually, navigate to the Containers page.
How To Find Recommendations
Each container that may benefit from an adjusted service schedule will be flagged with “Service Change Recommended.” We provide a filter view to make navigating to containers with an open recommendation easier.
Review and Accept or Dismiss a Recommendation
When you click on a container with a recommendation, you will see a banner on the collection data card indicating the frequency and specific days of the week. If the current service schedule has pricing information and we are recommending a reduction in service, we will estimate the savings based on the difference in the number of days between the current and recommended schedules.
If you “Dismiss” a recommendation, we will analyze another 4 weeks of data before considering whether to make another recommendation.
If you select to “Update” the service schedule, you will be prompted to confirm the days of the week and pricing of the new schedule.
Once updated, we will analyze another 4 weeks of data before considering whether to make another recommendation.
Having your containers on the most optimized service schedule can ensure the cost of service is not being driven up by superfluous pickups or excessive overages. If your containers currently do not have schedules or pricing you can add them by following these instructions in-app or by leveraging our APIs.