Our Services
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Expand your business and improve your culture.
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Improve safety performance and create accurate and efficient reporting for every step of your operations
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Optimize the way you track, analyze and budget your equipment and supplies.
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Take a more strategic approach to shipping from start to finish.
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Gain insight into highly specialized areas of technical and experiential knowledge.
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Get an accurate and supportive assessment from an independent point of view.
Executive Leadership and Strategic Business Development
We’ll help you build a governance structure that creates a culture and strategy for success:
Retain talented high potential employees by developing mentorship programs and incentive programs.
Increase gross margin dollars generated by your commercial scrap purchase program.
Evaluate and model new business opportunities and execute on new business acquisitions, property leases and service contracts
Develop capital and operational budgets to better manage cash flow, and recommend KPI's that fit YOUR business and drive employee performance
Safety Performance Review and Operational Analysis
We’ll give you the tools to perform a qualitative and/or quantitative analysis of fixed plant and equipment, subject to your ability to generate accurate reports. We also provide optimized templates, including:
Apply aspects of the Dupont Safety Program® to improve safety culture, focusing upon leading indicators to driver lower RIFR and LTIFR
Auto Shredder Plant
Metal Recovery Plant (producing Zorba, Stainless, Wire, etc.)
Hydraulic Shears and Balers, fixed or mobile
Material Handling Processes
Stockpiling
Truck Loading
Container Loading
Procurement & Maintenance
With diligence and expertise, we’ll review your current practices to drive you towards greater tracking, analysis and action of your data around equipment and supplies.
Design the best system (or systems) to manage purchasing and maintenance
Authorize and track spending as accurately as possible to create a complete cost of ownership view
Use tracking data to analyze various aspects of your business and inform future purchasing decisions
Transportation & Logistics
Comprehensively looking at mode, equipment, tracking, and more we make sure you’re moving in the most efficient way possible, so your business can go where it needs to. Tools and recommendation to help you execute on important processes and structures:
Automation and optimization of freight payment, audit functions, dispatch and daily transportation tracking
Implementation of dispatching software to optimize your pickups and deliveries.
Templates for accurate analysis of logistics teams and spending
Experience and relationships to help you overcome unique challenges and gain entry into exclusive shipping paths:
Maintain productivity, timing and budget through changing shipping regulations and supply chain disruptions.
Leverage our connections with gatekeepers of equipment and routes, such as Class-I railroads and tugboat operators
Maritime Operations
From equipment, to processes, and techniques, we provide the necessary insights and strategies to help you maximize your costs and overall performance.
Barge and ocean-going vessel cargo operations, we offer a wide range of expertise to streamline and optimize your business:
Choosing a dock bulkhead design
Selecting material handling and upland support equipment
Working with private and union labor to optimize barge and ship loading/unloading
Vessel charter party and laytime statements
Sales contracts and banking documentations related to bulk export cargoes
Marine Surveying
As Independent Surveyors, we can protect your interests.
Perform displacement surveys, bunker surveys and cargo hold inspections.
We use a freeboard measuring device to verify drafts that produce results accurate to one-tenth of one-inch displacement.
For clients that export metal scrap in bulk, we can act as Quality Surveyor to ensure a fair and objective approach during the cargo loading process, using a practical approach to apply ISRI Scrap Metal Specifications along with your contract standards
Manifest Advisory
Expertise at the Helm.
Steve Shinn started Manifest Advisory to insightfully guide growing businesses in the quickly evolving and complicated recycling and scrap industry. With over 38 years of experience working around the world, Steve brings expertise across a wide range of processes and regulations, as well as an incredibly vast and varied network.
