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FacilityLocator

If you are a planning officer seeking to find the best sites, a bid manager aiming to provide the optimum service solution or a manager specifying and/or evaluating a contract, our FacilityLocator service will help you.

Balancing the needs of the catchment or service area with the collection, transfer, treatment and disposal facilities required is far from straightforward. Where, for instance, is the best place to locate a facility on economic and transport criteria?

How sensitive is the contract to collection and delivery services? When should these facilities be developed and what happens if they are not commissioned on time? How can capacity be assessed over the life of the contract. What will be the impact of the forthcoming landfill allowances and how can future volumes be managed?

With FacilityLocator, we can offer a service using geographical information about material arisings and combine this with the location of facilities to produce an optimised solution for planning, specifying, bidding or evaluating a contract.

Facilities can be added or deleted and their capacity and capabilities altered. This means that FacilityLocator can be used to model existing situations as well as predicting the future.

Each facility can also have costs and penalties allocated against it. For example,

• Landfill tax can be allocated against landfill sites and the yearly escalator identified to determine the point at which it is economic to switch to or invest in alternative facilities.
• Penalties or constraints can be built in for not achieving a required volume through a facility.
• If a glass reprocessor has different prices per colour of cullet, then the price for each colour is used against the capacity available to identify the lowest cost solution to the service provider.

The data required for use in the facility planning service can be collected and maintained on spreadsheets which are commonly used and suitable for auditing and validation.

The outputs achieved by using FacilityLocator include:

• Charges for handling through a facility or disposal facility;
• Logistics costs;
• Penalty costs;
• Total operational costs;
• Total costs versus service level;
• A mapped solution available in:
  - Network diagram;
  - Geographical representation.

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