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Each financial year, commercial waste customers renew their contract with the council, hoping to do so in a quick and efficient manner to avoid any interruption in service and the messes that can come with a delay in waste removal.<\/p>\n<h2>A manual process negatively impacts contract renewals<\/h2>\n<p>For the 2023-24 year, Warrington had more than 750 trade contracts in place, putting the council team dedicated to the commercial waste area under pressure to process the new contracts quickly and efficiently. The project objective was to ensure customers would experience a positive and efficient user journey while renewing their existing contracts for the 2024-25 period, and in return decreasing the manual intervention required from the commercial waste team to process the new contracts received.<\/p>\n<p>The team revised the renewal process to better enable customers to request, review, and confirm their new contract details within one easy step. 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As a result, the borough\u2019s Waste Services team was forced to make more than 500 telephone calls in April 2023 alone asking customers to re-enter their accounts and complete the renewals process.<\/p>\n<h2>Automation makes for efficient processes<\/h2>\n<p>The borough team knew they needed to quickly identify a new process to ensure the entire revised renewals process was combined into one easy step.<\/p>\n<p>The Commercial Waste team leveraged Granicus digital services and tools solutions, using database integration via an auto lookup control to enable automatic and seamless retrieval of the relevant details of a customer\u2019s new contract from a back-office database, based on the customer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/granicus.uk\/solution\/govservice\/\">govService<\/a> profile.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, commercial waste customers are now able to request, review, and confirm their new contract in one easy step. The downstream benefits meant staff on the Commercial Waste team no longer need to manually input the contract details, reducing the need for the team to reach out to customers to confirm their contracts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Warrington Borough Council Waste Service Manager Steve Andrews described the revised process as a \u201chuge success story for the waste services team.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe revised process had worked beyond expectations and provided such positive benefits to the service overall,\u201d he said. 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