Cost benchmarking enables pulp and paper producers to analyse and compare their asset competiveness against their peer group. Through benchmarking, a company can make informed and intelligent business decisions about how best to use capital to improve assets.
Benchmarking provides the information needed for continuous business improvement and serves as a driver for change and growth.
Specifically, cost benchmarking allows companies to:
- assess competitive strengths and weaknesses and to learn from the experiences of best-in-class companies
- identify inefficiencies in performance and capabilities such as resources, processes and activities
- identify areas for cost reduction and best practices
- assess the competiveness of any machine in the world and plan for capital investment
- target specific success factors that are integral to gaining a competitive advantage
- conduct sensitivity analysis to determine how the price of raw materials, energy, chemicals, labour and operating materials affect competitive positions
- model the effects of shifts in exchange rate, manufacturing costs or grade mix.
Beca AMEC specialists have the ability to:
- track every pulp and paper grade, machine and pulp line in the world that produces over 50 t/d
- categorise products by major grade, finished product and basis weight
- provide detailed information on total production costs and a cost breakdown for raw materials, pulps, chemicals, energy and labour.
- access a comprehensive database that is collected and updated using a variety of publicly available sources including industry publications, capacity reports, directories, surveys, equipment vendor and news media.