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Centralising planning contributes to more efficient collection routes
Can the planning department cut down from 50 to 10 planners? “Yes is the answer to this question by centralising the planning with intelligent optimisation”, according to Madrid based Gerard Kissane who has over 10 years of experience in the waste industry.
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Powerful algorithms optimise all kind of waste collection
The collection and transport of waste are one of the most challenging with a lot of different types of waste and planning each of them having its own demands.
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Die AMCS Group bietet während der virtuellen Messe eREC ein komplettes Programm an
Eine vollwertige Messe, aber online. Die eREC, die Digital Recycling Expo und Konferenz für Kreislaufwirtschaft und Abfallwirtschaft, bietet diese Erfahrung. Die virtuelle Messe findet vom 31. August bis 4. September statt 2020.
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Operational insights enables quick responses for metal recyclers
Due to real-time data exchange with the industry-specific AMCS Recycling Software metal recyclers can respond immediately to the current price and market information.
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AMCS CEO Jimmy Martin: “Current crises demands industry to be more agile"
The ability to be more agile while improving the digital engagement of customers are two of the major changes for the waste and recycling industry caused by the current Covid-19 crisis. This is evident from a comment from Jimmy Martin, CEO and co-founder of the AMCS Group in a podcast hosted by Waste360.
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Announcing 2020’s second major release of the AMCS Platform
AMCS announces the release of the ground-breaking AMCS Platform 8.3, providing the waste and recycling industry with enormous added value. The 8.2 release of AMCS Platform in February was built around increasing operational efficiencies. The focus of the new 8.3 version is agility. Organisations need to be flexible and adapt to market shifts. This new release helps deliver just that, with an array of streamlined, innovative features, alongside redesigned screens and a smarter, more intuitive user experience.
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Global aggregates market is on the rise
Two of the major opportunities for the aggregates industry are the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation in developing economies and the increasing mega construction projects across the globe.
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Mobile in-cab device mitigates financial risks in waste collection
Ensuring all work is billed by charging customers for additional lifts, or overweight and contaminated bins. With this, AMCS Mobile prevents revenue leakage while also mitigating financial risks.
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Webinare, die die Möglichkeiten für die Transportoptimierung in der Versorgungskette des Bauwesens aufzeigen.
Mit einer Reihe kurzer und kostenloser Webinare rückt die AMCS Gruppe die Bau- und Baumaterialbranche ins Rampenlicht und stellt dabei die Optimierung der Verteilung von Transportbeton, Zement und Zuschlagstoffen in den Mittelpunkt. Die Webinare finden im Mai und Juni statt. Branchenexperten von AMCS geben einen Überblick über die Markttendenzen, Schwierigkeiten und Gelegenheiten, die sich zwangsläufig daraus ergeben. Mit ihrer jahrelangen Erfahrung in der Bau- und Baumaterialbranche werden sie erläutern, wie Unternehmen sich diesen Herausforderungen stellen und diese scheinbaren Nachteile sogar in einen Wettbewerbsvorteil verwandeln können.
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Business improvements based on substantiated analytics
Delivering end-to-end operational visibility to the waste and recycling industry. AMCS Analytics provides a state-of-the-art analytics solution to determine the profitability of services, operations and customers.
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Scoop for AMCS with its live webinar Mobile Workforce for remote workers
How can AMCS Mobile Workforce support remote workers? These and other question will be answered by industry-expert on June 3 during the first live AMCS webinar about this topic.
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Municipality of Groningen has a 100% clear insight into performance
A 100% clear insight into the overall operations is just one of the significant benefits for the Municipality of Groningen of using the integrated solutions from AMCS Platform.
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Integrated ERP system streamlines process flow: from ‘order to cash’
Execute all operational processes with one integrated IT system. With AMCS Enterprise Management waste and recycling companies are able to automate and digitise their complete workflow in one seamless process: from 'order to cash'.
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Die zentrale Lösung für das knifflige Planungspuzzle
Mit einem höchst komplexen und dynamischen Planungspuzzle fertig werden und dabei die Routen optimieren sowie den täglichen Zeitplan einhalten. Es steht außer Frage, dass eine hochmoderne Technologie wie Intelligent Optimisation benötigt wird, um diese Komplexität für mehrere Standorte, Produkte und Fahrzeugtypen zu bewältigen.
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Mobile app provides in-process material grading
A fully digital process without one sheet of paper required. This is one of the major benefits for metal recyclers of mobile material grading, an integrated part of the AMCS Recycling Software.
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Spotlight Series 2/2: integrated IT system increases margins
The Spotlight Series focusses on AMCS-customers in the global waste and recycling industry. Two blog posts in de series highlight UK-based William Tracey Group and the US-based Russel Reid and how they benefit from the added value of the integrated IT system provided by AMCS Platform.
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Spotlight Series 1/2: integrated IT system increases turnover
Save an extraordinary amount on costs and at the same time, significantly improve efficiency. With an integrated IT system waste and recycling companies can increase their turnover and margins. This is evident from a case study by the American-based Russell Reid & Mr. John which, with the end-to-end solution, also improves the customer experience while at the same time reduces call centre costs.
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AMCS Group rolls out next-generation customer support portal
Committed to delivering a much faster and excellent customer support experience. With this, the brand-new Customer Support Portal is highly improving end-customer service levels.
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Significant cut back in planning time through dynamic route optimisation
Substantially decrease planning time and with that reduce costs. Waste and recycling companies optimising planning and waste collection routes do profit from both of these two major benefits.
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Guided Navigation reduziert verpasste Behälter und die damit verbundenen zusätzlichen Kosten
Erfahrene Fahrer, die ihr Wissen über Abfallsammelrouten teilen, sind einer der großen Vorteile von Guided Navigation.
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Die Optimierung der Masterrouten führt zu einer Einsparung von 10 bis 20% bei der Abfallsammlung
Abfallsammelwege für Haushalts- und Gewerbeabfälle können 10 bis 20% effizienter geplant werden.
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Karle Recycling führt drei Betriebsaktivitäten digital in einer zusammen
Dank der Integration der Recyclingsoftware von AMCS kann Karle Recycling alle Betriebsabläufe in einem zentralen System überwachen. Dieser bedeutende Vorteil wird in einem Video demonstriert, das AMCS bei dem Metallrecyclingunternehmen in Stuttgart aufgenommen hat.
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In-cab device mitigates operational risk through real-time data exchange
Constant and up-to-date customer, route and vehicle information available across the organisation through the real-time exchange of data. With this, the AMCS’ in-cab mobile device provides actual route information to mitigate operational risk.
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Pilotprojekt: Dank Guided Navigation sind Routeninformationen für Veolia-Fahrer in Deutschland digital verfügbar
Das Wissen von erfahrenen Fahrern darüber, wie Routen am effizientesten gefahren werden, ist jetzt für alle anderen Kollegen digital verfügbar.
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Customer Portal 2.0 boosts brand equity
The AMCS Customer Portal 2.0 release delivers added value to operators by automating more customer interactions and ensuring a consistent, branded and positive customer experience with each engagement.
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Mobile in-cab device increases drivers’ safety
Mitigate health and safety risks for drivers in the waste and recycling industry. Due to an extensive set of built-in features, AMCS Mobile is delivering exactly that.
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Spain targets EU recycling goals through separate household waste collections
More cities in Spain are looking at the possibility of collecting household waste streams separately or on a door-to-door basis. With this, the country is aiming to meet the EU goals to recycling 50% of the household waste in 2020.
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Intelligente Optimierung erhöht die operative Flexibilität der Abfallsammlung
In dieser sich schnell verändernden Welt erwarten die Kunden einen rund um die Uhr verfügbaren und benutzerfreundlichen Self-Service, der einen vollständigen Einblick in die Betriebsabläufe und Flexibilität erfordert. Unternehmen, denen es an Reaktionsfähigkeit mangelt, riskieren ein Vermögen und setzen ihre Organisation unter Druck.
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Intelligente Optimierung als Basis für die Entleerung von Unterflurbehältern
Schnellere Planung und mehr Entlastung der Einsatzplanung. Das sind für Omrin die Vorteile der dynamischen Planung und Routenoptimierung von Entleerungsaufträgen für Unterflurbehältern.
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Zero Waste through Material Management
Setting a goal of Zero Waste must start somewhere. The City of Fort Collins started at 50% and made a compelling business case on taking it further by estimating $6.5M worth of valuable resources thrown away every year in Fort Collins alone (Zero Waste Associates, 2013). As the City of Fort Collins, the first step is identifying a goal and then establish a plan on how to reach that goal.
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AMCS Recyclingsoftware verbessert die Effizienz und vergrößert Margen
Das Recycling von Metall, Papier und Kunststoff vollständig digitalisieren und automatisieren. Das ist möglich mit der AMCS Recyclingsoftware, einem integrierten IT-System, das unternehmensweit alle operativen Prozesse optimiert und dadurch sowohl die Effizienz als auch die Margen verbessert.
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The value of the new AMCS Digital Training Tool for your business
Simplify your onboarding process, speed-up user adoption and ensure best practice use of applications.
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Warum ein Kundenportal Teil Ihrer Kundenbindungsstrategie sein sollte
Zugang zu allen Informationen in Echtzeit, rund um die Uhr, 365 Tage im Jahr. Mit der Bereitstellung eines 24-Stunden-Kundendienstes mithilfe eines Kundenportals optimieren Abfall- und Recyclingunternehmen ihre Kundenprozesse, verbessern den Kundendienst, die Beteiligung der Kunden und deren Zufriedenheit um bis zu 33% und liefern gleichzeitig eine positive und professionelle Markenerfahrung. So können Abfall- und Recyclingunternehmen ihr Anrufvolumen potenziell um bis zu 30% reduzieren.
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Intelligente Optimierungsbasis für die Abfallsammlung
Die Niederlande sind führend beim Recycling von Hausmüll. Das Sammeln von Abfällen mit Unterflurbehältern hilft der Entsorgungsbranche die zirkulären Ziele zu erreichen.
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AMCS launches Driver Assisted Terminal for unmanned weighing
AMCS DAT empowers 24/7 assistance-free weighbridge operations increasing asset utilisation, reducing operating costs and improving the service to customers by facilitating self-service weighing at any time and any location.
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8.2 release provides a superior experience for onboarding casual customers
With the 8.2 release of AMCS Platform, the casual customer onboarding process has been greatly improved and enhanced facilitating waste and recycling operators to onboard their end-customers much more quickly.
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AMCS Mobile offers a complete mobile order management solution
Getting the job done. Drivers using AMCS Mobile know what they are talking about. With their in-cab android mobile device they are handling all of their daily orders in real-time while on the road.
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Top tips for choosing an in-cab mobile solution
In this guide, Ken Tierney, Product Manager AMCS, offers input and advice for choosing an in-cab mobile solution for your fleet.
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AMCS strengthens relationship with Microsoft on Cloud offering
The AMCS Group is the first company in the waste and recycling industry to be awarded the Microsoft Azure IP Co-Sell Ready status. With this partnership waste and recycling companies are guaranteed the advantage of the cloud for improving their operational efficiency, business agility, scalability and security of their systems.
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AMCS präsentiert auf der IFAT eine voll integrierte Plattform
Während der Fachmesse IFAT, die vom 4. bis 8. Mai in München stattfindet, stellt die AMCS Gruppe als einziger Aussteller eine komplett integrierte Softwareplattform für die Entsorgung- und Recyclingindustrie vor.
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Interview mit Elaine Treacy, Global Product Director von AMCS
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Kaatsch Recycling hat dank Recyclingsoftware einen Gesamtüberblick
Prozesse kontinuierlich optimieren, um Kunden weiterhin den größtmöglichen Mehrwert bieten zu können. Laut Ralph Wager, dem Geschäftsführer des deutschen Unternehmens Kaatsch Recycling, ist das einer der Haupttreiber für sein Unternehmen, das sich auf Metallrecycling spezialisiert hat.
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First major 2020 release of AMCS Platform due in February
February 2020 the AMCS Group is launching the first of three major software releases this year of AMCS Platform bringing new benefits to the waste and recycling industry. AMCS is worldwide the leading ICT specialist for waste and recycling, investing heavily in its innovative Azure-based SAAS software, AMCS Platform.
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Insights to improve C&D processes and drive margin
Pay Murray, C&D industry expert at AMCS answers five questions about improving your processes in C&D waste management.
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An inside look at the global waste and recycling market
Insight to the state of the global waste and recycling management industry: challenges, trends and strategies at work.
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Overcoming hurdles in the construction & demolition waste industry
Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) represents the highest single activity for producing waste in the EU. Many of the materials we generate as part of CDW have high resource value, such as metals, glass, wood and concrete. Yet, too much of these materials are going to waste. Clearly, this is not sustainable.
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Millennials and the Future of our Environment
In the waste and recycling industry, whoever is generating the waste tends to be analyzed first and given that millennials are the largest group currently contributing to the waste stream.
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Majid Arai, Holland Recycling:
Die automatische Verarbeitung von Einkaufs- und Verkaufsaufträgen. Das kann Holland Recycling mit der AMCS Recyclingsoftware. Das auf Metall und Elektronik spezialisierte Unternehmen hat mit AMCS seit Anfang 2018 alle logistischen und administrativen Prozesse digitalisiert und automatisiert.
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How recyclers can improve materials processing and sales
The materials recycling sector is incredibly complex. For instance, as part of the European Commission’s strategy, changes in design and manufacturing will enable higher rates for recycling plastics so that by 2030, more than half of the material’s waste generated will be recycled.
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Piney Woods Sanitation
The valuable insight provided from AMCS’ software allowed Piney Woods Sanitation to analyze their performance in order to grow the business.
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Unterstützung der intelligenten Stadt
Die Entwicklung intelligenter Städte wächst mit schwindelerregender Geschwindigkeit. Der weltweite Kostenaufwand soll laut der International Data Corporation (IDC) bis 2020 158 Milliarden US-Dollar übersteigen.
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How do you get (even more) people to recycle their waste?
Recycling waste is an important way to reduce the waste of resources, pollution and CO2-emissions.
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Improving the inbound quality and evaluation process at your facility
Insight into ways you can improve the quality and evaluation process at your facility.
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Implementing a PAYT scheme can be done
Part of creating a Circular Economy for a sustainable planet involves recycling and waste reduction.
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Liberty Tire Recycling
Liberty Tire Recycling has been dedicated to finding new and better ways to reclaim, recycle and reuse scrap tires as the base of innovative, useful product
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How Municipals can stop revenue leakage and improve recycling operations
In this article we sat down with Arun Ramaraj, Product Manager of AMCS Platform for Municipals, to learn his thoughts on 5 of the most commonly asked questions asked by municipal customers.
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Demand Planning
Planning the required inventory for production or material slot sales can be a bit of a nightmare. How can processes be improved?
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Can metal thieves be deterred?
Metal crime is growing problem in Ireland and the UK. How can scrap dealers do more to protect their yard workers, property and infrastructure?
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Warum ist das Kunststoffrecycling so schwierig?
Es gibt variierende Statistiken darüber, wie viel Plastik pro Jahr weltweit produziert wird, zwischen 100 Millionen Tonnen bis zu mehr als 300 Millionen Tonnen. Wie dem auch sei, nur 5% bis 9% davon werden effektiv recycelt.
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AMCS: A complete Enterprise-grade software solution for Paper recycling
Read the interview with Mark Abbas from AMCS about paper recycling in the digital edition of Global Recycling.
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3 Ways to Avoid Recycling Contamination
The recent changes in the recycling commodity market underline one very dirty problem with the current global recycling system – contamination. The vast majority of recyclable material which was being collected and shipped over-seas was filled with contaminated material.
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5 tips to make your business (more) green
Companies with clear Corporate Social Responsibility mandates are on the right track with ways of working that support a circular economy, and operating under the three Rs: reduce, recycle, and reuse.
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Are You Joining the Zer0-Waste Movement?
Are You Joining the Zer0-Waste Movement? What is Zero Waste? And why has it become such a relevant subject across cities and individuals across the globe? The overarching goal of Zero-Waste is about eliminating the accumulation of waste in landfills. It is about re-evaluating the structure of our current economy and lifestyles, with hopes to evolve into a more circular one. It's about saving our planet.
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3 Ways to Integrate Your Disparate Systems
Are disparate systems slowing down your waste and recycling operations? The Waste and Recycling Industry is highly competitive and quite complicated with all its moving parts. Especially now in a rapidly changing recycling commodities landscape, there is more demand on waste and recycling businesses to operate at peak efficiency.
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The value of recycling metals
By rethinking what we throw away we can reverse the prevailing mindset of the proverbial disposable society. We all need to promote recycling and pressure our governments to do the same, while encouraging the sustainable trade of recyclable materials to green-driven companies across the world.
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It’s time to get your head in the cloud
Ultimately, waste management companies are only really left with two choices. Either they carry on as they are and pray that they are able to manage any disruption when it occurs, or they are proactive and make changes that can both protect their businesses and support its continued growth.
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Payment Challenges & the Solution
The way we make payments is evolving – and fast. With new services being introduced, the infrastructure must adapt if it’s to handle these developments.
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3 Solutions to Prevent Missed Collections
Residential waste and recycling operators across the country all deal with one very common issue, missed collections. What most people do not realize is that a simple missed stop can be one of the most costly occurrences to a waste hauler.
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Metal Recycling: will digitalisation solve key industry challenges?
The global metal recycling industry is growing at an unprecedented rate. Is digitalisation the answer to key industry challenges?
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Management Priorities
Norway is one of the most digital countries in Europe, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re doing enough to progress. Whether you’re a private waste management company or municipal, you have a level of digital maturity.
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As urban areas grow, so must your approach to waste management
Increased waste generation makes traditional means of collecting bins impractical and puts a tremendous financial strain on waste management companies and municipals
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The state of payments
As margins continue to squeeze, businesses must turn to digital to improve operational efficiencies, and that includes their payment system.
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HERE Technologies
Yes, location intelligence can help you take out the trash, but if we're to build a glossy, streamlined digital future, the waste management industry has to be a part of the picture.
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How to get your ERP software wrong
Generic ERP engineers are plentiful, but the truth is, there are few best-in-class engineers specific to waste and recycling management. Just because it’s a big player doesn’t guarantee you the industry-expertise you need.
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AMCS Customer Portal | What it means for you and your customers
Digital customer care can increase satisfaction by up 33% and streamline resources.
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The Digital Customer Experience
Customer experience is defined as the quality of a customer’s interactions with a company’s products and services. The better the experience, the better the results.
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How best-in-class waste management organisations save their piece of the planet
How are the big players in the market managing to make a profit while also reducing their carbon footprint?
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Digital Transformation
What are the biggest hurdles to a successful digital transformation in waste management & recycling? Different stages require a different focus, each with their own challenges.
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Können wir aus den Interessen unseres Planeten Kapital schlagen
Wenn Wachstum und Umweltverträglichkeit Hand in Hand gehen
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The Digital Transformation Roadmap in 2019
More than half of the waste management and recycling organizations we surveyed for the AMCS Digital Transformation Benchmark 2018 were planning an increase in their IT budget in 2019.
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The 5 Success Factors
The cost of waste management is going up, and up is the only direction we can expect it to go in the foreseeable future! Meeting this challenge will mean optimizing efficiency and automating processes: a digital transformation.
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Dynamic Optimisation Insights
Dynamic optimisation is an exciting field that can bring tangible benefits to virtually any company out there.
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Improving Operational Efficiency with Cloud Solutions
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Future proofing your business with AMCS Platform
The waste and recycling industry is undergoing unprecedented change around the world as we transition from linear to circular economies. While that demands change in your processes, it also involves change in the technology to support those processes.
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End-to-end principles address changing marketplace
Recycling firms have traditionally paid authorities for waste that could be turned into recycled goods, but with the loss of China as their primary market, many are now under pressure. In North America and across Europe, firms are re-examining their contractual relationships with local governments.
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Why AMCS moved to the cloud
The cloud enables us to offer you a better service. It will save you money in IT costs, improve your efficiency and in turn, allow you to improve your customers’ experience.
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Smart waste planning drives value
The world’s cities produce around 2.01 billion tonnes of solid waste each year, says the World Bank, with that number expected to reach 3.40 billion tonnes by 2050.
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The Future Vision of Waste Operations
We see a new model emerging in the waste subcontracting space that will drive the future of the industry and operations. The model starts with the waste operators internal operations as the hub for external interactions between the customers and subcontractors.
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Vehicle Technology
The biggest challenges facing the waste management industry are ineffective collections, irregular waste pickups and the efficient sorting of waste
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Unlock Value Using Subcontractor Automation
The pace of change in technology today is driving the waste industry to move to more agile, automated operations. In part, customers are driving this change. There are three key innovation drivers being the catalyst for change.
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Going further with the AMCS Platform
As software and services that run on the internet instead of your computer, the cloud is a wonderful thing. To take advantage of the cloud and its easier user experience, you need to consider the AMCS Platform.
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How to Improve Profit with Operational Efficiency
In the waste hauling industry, margins are notoriously tight, particularly for smaller, privately owned businesses. But with great challenges also comes great opportunities. As many AMCS customers have come to find out, intelligently investing in digitizing almost any facet of your operations results in improved profits.
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The wonderful world of blockchain in logistics
Blockchain might be the technology that supports cryptocurrency, but for logistics, it’s so much more.
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Optimize Your Scale House Operations
AMCS allows scale houses to easily track materials by origin, destination, weight, volume, and/or number of units to reduce revenue leakage.
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3 Secrets Satisfying Your Customers With Automation
There are many benefits to automating your internal processes with digitalization. Here, we are going to explore how you can make customer service a key differentiator for your business by digitizing and automating your customer service operations.
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5 Sizzling Summer Webinars To Get Your Business Cooking
A summer webinar series dedicated to helping you run your hauling and landfill operations more efficiently using our solutions to improve efficiency.
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7 Benefits of Having a System Power User
When implementing new software, or just trying to improve the use of a current one, it is best to have a dedicated system power user.
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Considerations for Implementing a Driver Assisted Program at Your Scale
A Driver Assisted Program is giving truck driver access to the disposal facility using a kiosk to weigh in and out without scale operator interaction. Should you implement one?
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Dynamic waste collection
As urban areas around the world look for sustainable growth, dynamic waste collection has to figure into the equation to protect the population, ecosystem and revenue for waste management companies, while lowering costs for local authorities.
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Digital innovation and agile route optimisation
Digital innovation is all about putting the needs of the customer first. Digital’s true potential to transform the customer experience. Innovative waste and recycling companies understand this and are helping new generations of consumers to interact in new ways.
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Agile on demand waste collection
One of the key answers to digital challenge is agile route optimisation. On demand collection consists of many overlapping processes, but with AMCS’ solution, one does not have to succumb to unnecessary order deadlines
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5 Ways to Success When Implementing New Technology
Implementing new technology requires diligence, budget, time and lots of planning to ensure overall success.
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5 Keys to Commercial Route Optimisation
Investing in a route optimisation platform can help your business make the most of valuable time and assets by ensuring drivers have efficient routes and collections are on time.
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Call for safety improvements across waste sector
More should be done to improve health and safety across the waste and recycling sector following the publication of figures showing little improvement last year. That is the message from the Environmental Services Association (ESA), the trade body representing the UK’s resource and waste management industry.
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3 Reasons to Digitise your Business
The ability to automate process and digitise data has a number of benefits associated with removing the risk of human error and the duplication of tasks. There are however a number of other opportunities presented by digitalisation that are perhaps less commonly recognised.
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5 Ways to Increase Operational Efficiency
As the year is coming to a close, now is a good time to take a solid look at your business operations and determine ways to operate more efficiently across the organization heading into 2017. Whether you are looking to increase productivity, automate certain areas of your business or just need to get ahead of customer complaints, making some specific adjustments will help reduce costs and improve your bottom line.
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AMCS vehicle technology complements autonomous waste collection truck
Self-driving waste truck uses AMCS Vehicle Data Hub and AMCS in-cab On Board Computer for pay-by-weight operations.
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5 Steps to Prepare for a Data Conversion
One of the most challenging phases of a new software implementation is having your data migrated to the new system.
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7 top tips for choosing the right routing solution
Investing in a route planning solution can help your business make the most of invaluable time by ensuring that drivers are given the best routes and that deliveries are made efficiently and on time.
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3 Key Considerations When Installing new weighbridges
Are you considering installing new weighbridges at your site?
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