Boosting agility with digitization
Our digital solutions for the building materials industry optimize your operations for responsive and cost-efficient transport of construction materials.
Streamlining and automating processes to facilitate accurate delivery of time-sensitive materials including ready mix concrete, cement, prefab products, or aggregate.
With AMCS software, building materials specialists can:
- Reduce planning time by 75%
- Lower mileage and CO2 emissions by up to 25%
- Reduce fleet size by up to 10%
- Improve customer service by up to 33%
Equipped with real-time data collection and intelligent analysis, your business is ready to face the challenges caused by rising urbanization.
Helping you cut costs and boost agility through expert digitalization.
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Read about the AMCS Solution for the building materials industry for improving efficiencies and increasing margins.
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
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Cement distribution: cutting costs through digitization
Around 30 to 35% of the price of cement comes from transport and distribution. Smart optimization offers a way to protect margins and stay competitive, even when transportation costs are fluctuating.
Read moreCement distribution: cutting costs through digitization
Around 30 to 35% of the price of cement comes from transport and distribution. Smart optimization offers a way to protect margins and stay competitive, even when transportation costs are fluctuating.
To achieve these savings, optimization allows cement distributors to eliminate empty runs with flexible, automated planning across vehicles, plants, and regions.
With smart technology, distributors can manage large bulk and bag orders with ease, increasing efficiency and reducing planning time to ensure profitability and protect margins.
Ready-mix concrete: delivering on flexibility
As demand for ready-mix concrete increases, driven by the growth in sustainable infrastructure, timely concrete delivery keeps construction sites working.
Read moreReady-mix concrete: delivering on flexibility
As demand for ready-mix concrete increases, driven by the growth in sustainable infrastructure, timely concrete delivery keeps construction sites working.
With the construction industry racing to keep pace with industrialization and urbanization, the ready-mix market must ensure accurate delivery, not only to keep work on target, but also to maintain product quality.
Real-time readjustment of planned orders helps distributors meet this challenge, delivering expert tools for seamless just-in-time delivery.
IMPROVING YOUR BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
Business Value Drivers
Increase profits
Enhance efficiency and responsiveness through improved planning to minimize costs and ensure on time delivery of building materials.
Read moreIncrease profits
Innovative forecasting and planning tools enable you to streamline transportation for any material. Enabling you to manage orders, organize loading, and schedule deliveries for maximum efficiency.
With intelligent analysis and live re-optimization, AMCS helps you eliminate empty runs and minimize costs, improving your margin on every load.
Scalable Architecture
Boost agility and respond to increased demand for building materials as the construction industry evolves.
Read moreScalable Architecture
Our end-to-end ERP software helps you streamline and automate business processes to facilitate accurate delivery of all types of building material.
Sophisticated planning software helps you optimize distribution and delivery, while enterprise management solutions help you increase customer satisfaction levels.
Equipping you to manage and grow your business as the construction industry builds tomorrow’s sustainable infrastructure.
Business Digitalization
Eliminate time consuming manual planning and improve delivery scheduling with automated transport optimization.
Read moreBusiness Digitalization
Smart transport solutions provide improved productivity for faster, more accurate delivery of time-sensitive materials. Automated order management supports intelligent load creation, while live execution monitoring and real-time re-optimization help you increase agility.
With a 360-degree overview of operations, digitalization provides key insights into your business, enabling you to make informed decisions in any situation.
Concrete Planner Brochure
Enable major cost savings and CO2 emission reductions in your ready-mix concrete distribution
Aalborg Portland
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Aalborg Portland has achieved exceptional savings with AMCS’ Route Optimisation solution. Aalborg Portland is the largest producer of cement in Northern Europe and the world’s biggest exporter of white cement
Reitan
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Reduction in distribution costs50
Reduced time spent from order deadline to deliveryReitan Distribution delivers consumer goods to a wide range of chain stores in Denmark, including 7-Eleven, Rema1000, Q8, and XY. The company is part of the Norwegian Reitangruppen, which is one of the largest retail companies in Scandinavia with 27,500 employees and a 2009 turnover of more than 7.1 billion euros.
L’EASY
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DEK turnoverL’EASY is one of Scandinavia’s largest players for the sale and rental of white and brown goods. By implementing automatic planning with AMCS Fleet Planner, the business has increased efficiency in distribution, achieved greater capacity utilization and has also seen a significant improvement in customer services.
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