Mission

We started in this business as Shredders.  Our backstory is on this site, but to recap, we started with what was probably the smallest shred truck ever made.  7-1/2 years later we successfully sold the business as a regional mobile and plant-based operation.  The growth velocity was staggering.

Yet despite our growth rate, it was hard to keep up with money.  We had a mindset of “doing whatever we have to do to grow and serve”.  We loved those extreme customer service stories, and made them central to our culture.  But the flip side was that led to a lot of inefficiency.  And that, in turn, made it harder to actually make money.  Our experience led us to found ShredMetrics, where today our mission is clear:

We help Shredders be more profitable by increasing efficiency.

There is no single one magical thing to fix.  Between working with Shredders and from our own experience we have learned there are many places where profit slips away and is lost forever.  

• You might have bad route design that wastes money on extra diesel and driver hours.  
• Maybe you are putting off billing until the end of the month which hurts your cash flow. 
• It could be that you have a revolving door of office staff who don’t “get” your business, or it could be that one super-star back-office employee is stuck in repetitive clerical functions to maintain the business… and can’t help you to grow it.

You get the idea.  And when you add all these individual things up, they hurt your bottom line in a measurable way.  

When you team with ShredMetrics we bring in new and better software-based systems to address those systemic problems, and we can help you use your staff for growth if one of our experts takes over the repetitive office work.

No two ShredMetrics solutions are exactly alike, because no two Shredding businesses are exactly alike.  But we know from experience that many have common problems and places we can help.  Let’s have a conversation to see if we can help your business too.