Tailored for efficiency

With 68% of the world’s population expected to live in cities by 2050, urbanization is set to rise rapidly.

Demand for infrastructure is constantly putting pressure on the building materials industry, but with the right support this sector can excel.

AMCS delivers that support with industry-specific transport solutions based on extensive experience with partners such as Unicon, Aalborg Portland, AfriSam, Tarmac and Lemvigh-Müller.

Our advanced IT system can help you improve operational efficiency and achieve major cost savings, resulting in:

• 15 to 25% more full loads of ready-mix delivered per vehicle
• 10 to 20% reduction in miles driven
• 5 to 10% less vehicles needed
• 30 to 75% less time spent on resource scheduling
• 30 to 60% less time required for registration and follow up

To meet the unique demands of this dynamic industry, AMCS offers tailored solutions for the various types of building material required.

Ready-mix concrete

Sophisticated planning software helps you optimize operations for the seamless delivery of ready-mix concrete. We enable you to work across multiple plants and production sites with real-time optimization to increase both flexibility and accuracy.

• Automatically split orders into loads according to vehicle capacities
• Ensure a steady flow of deliveries for larger orders by monitoring shuttle deliveries, time between loads, or cubic meters delivered per hour
• Plan vehicle sharing across multiple plants
• Allocate vehicle loads according to qualifications, cost profiles and availability
• Handle pump, PUMIs and regular vehicles in the same optimization
• Plan according to recipes and production capabilities
• Schedule and manage quality assurance checks
• Undertake real-time re-optimization for order adjustments and urgent orders using communication with GPS trackers, mobile systems, vehicle equipment, and production system status

Cement

Innovative forecasting and planning enable you to streamline transportation even for multi-compartment trucks. With intelligent analysis and live re-optimization, AMCS helps you minimize costs and improve accuracy during cement delivery.

• Plan with multiple silo locations and multiple loading heads per silo
• Schedule loading for vehicles with several compartments per truck and trailer
• Plan bulk transport and bag distribution in the same system
• Include customer pick-ups to cater for silo capacity
• Avoid costly offloading and manage product contamination with effective decision support for return materials
• Redirect loads in real-time to avoid customers running dry
• Monitor customer stock levels to forecast and plan future cement deliveries
• Live execution monitoring with ongoing re-optimization in real time
• Support for key operational exceptions including vehicle breakdowns or loading head outages

Aggregates, metal, and prefab products

The AMCS Platform handles complex orders with ease, simplifying the transportation and delivery of aggregates, metal, and prefabricated building products. Ensuring you can provide intelligent solutions to complex distribution challenges, day in, day out.

• Manage complex order picking to transfer metal and prefab products from warehouse to truck
• Pre-load trailers ready for tractor collection
• Automatically create orders for aggregate transportation based on customer stock levels and consumption curves
• Manage quarry loading restrictions including limitations on loading equipment
• Plan multi-day trips for delivery and shunting
• Move products from hangar to vehicle enroute