Route efficiency

Cost Reduction and increased route efficiency

The AMCS route optimization solution gives your operation huge cost reduction through increased route efficiency. The power of the solution typically gives a total cost reduction of 10% to 15%.

Examples of customers’ efficiency gains:

• AES in Ireland: Increased lifts per route hour by 15%
• SUEZ in Benelux: Increased lifts per route hour by 5% to 10%
• Twente Milieu in the Netherlands: Increased lifts per route hour by 20 to 25%
• Saver in the Netherlands: Increased lifts per route hour by 15 to 25%

The optimization algorithm is therefore not just a simple solver. It is based on metaheuristics built to handle real-life challenges in the waste industry.

This means that the optimization algorithm is configured to combine a reduction in miles, time, and cost with your route quality preferences and agreed-on customer service levels.

Customer Satisfaction

Customer satisfaction and responsiveness

With the AMCS route optimization solution, you can give your customers best-in-class customer service levels without increasing your costs or prices. The optimization solution makes cost reduction go hand in hand with improved customer service levels.

The optimization is simply not allowed to construct routes that violate customer agreements. Real-life challenges like time windows, overlapping or non-overlapping routes, stop qualification demands, vehicle capacity, and much more is a part of the optimization process.

Examples of what to gain:

Meeting promised time windows and assuring correct resource to the job real-time execution and on-the-fly re-optimization and dispatching of routesProactive ETA information for each customer instant route and time slotting during customer requests and much more

Process optimization

Process standardization and best practices

Regardless of whether you have a centralized or decentralized planning and dispatch organization, you will gain highly valuable process optimization and standardization with the AMCS optimization solution.

The configuration of the optimization algorithm embeds the overall company route strategy and policy. This includes the balancing of e.g. route costs vs. service levels and e.g. non-overlapping routes vs. route costs.

The AMCS route optimization solution is much more than route optimization. It can integrate in real-time with systems like ERP, order, mobile, GPS, weighting, production, scanning, reporting, and more. The solution becomes a central operational cockpit for your business securing smooth, real-time based and agile processes.

• Examples of process and practices optimization:
  Effective optimization of work-flow as well as data-flow
• Push best practices to all in the company
• Easily have decentral locations adopt business preferences ability to centralise otherwise decentralized work

Business digitalization

Complete insight

There are massive gains for your waste business in embracing the digital transformation sweeping across the globe. Street data, GPS, mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), web portals, vehicle technology, analytics, inventory management, and system integration now come with very high quality.

AMCS is in the forefront of embedding cutting-edge technology into our solutions, and by this helping our customers ride on the wave of digital transformation. The AMCS digitalization creates an insight into schedules, execution, and performance like never seen before.

In other words, the AMCS solution’s digitalization facilities give you transparency and the ability to respond effectively through the underlying optimization.

Among the many aspects of digitization are e.g.:

• Including all stakeholders through web portals
• Automatic collection order-generation with forecasting and VMI
• IoT and online order booking facility with instant time slotting
• GPS to route precision through automated data and time verification
• Subcontractor interaction and automated self-billing

Scalable architecture

Proven track record

The waste industry is unique when it comes to diversity in transport and logistics. The complexity of the industry is high due to the many waste type having its own characteristics.

How many industries need to plan for hundred of thousands of orders in one go, and at the same time schedule and re-plan incrementally second by second? The waste industry does.

This fact calls – not only – for an extreme functional capability, it also calls for a flexible and scalable solution architecture.

The powerful and scalable architecture of the solution facilitates:

• High-density master routes with 300,000 stops in one optimization
• Instant, incremental, and real-time route optimization
• Deployed either as a cloud solution or on-premise
• Hybrid user interface facilitating rich GUI and web technology

Responsive and Agile

Responsive, agile, and competitive

The world is rapidly changing and customers of today expect 24/7 responsiveness and user-friendly self-service. Truly responsive companies instantly handle and respond to customers’ demands and requests. When dedicating your organization to responsiveness, you will have to do so with full operational insight and agility. If not, responsiveness can risk costing you a fortune and put stress on your organization.

You need to support your organization and systems with an agile optimization platform. The agile route optimization solution should be embedded in your overall digital infrastructure. Order-taking, changes to orders, route changes, ETA information, field status, etc. should all be supported by automatic optimization continuously running in the background. The agile nature of the AMCS route optimization solutions is about:

• Superior responsiveness to customer demands and exceptions
• Incremental re-optimization reacting instantly to operational changes
• Fully transparent operation and real-time responsiveness
• Merging operation and optimization into one and the same process
• Exact plan versus actuals and precise reporting
• Tomorrow’s winners are responsive and agile.