Game-changing route cost reduction and improved customer service
Our route optimization solution provides you endless benefits and superior business value. With our solution, you will get significant cost reductions and improved customer service levels on your collection routes and waste transport. The optimization capabilities span from master route optimization down to fully dynamic and real-time driven optimization – all with the purpose of making you excel in a highly competitive market.
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The AMCS Intelligent Optimization solution optimizes hundreds of thousands of master route stops in one optimization, and second by second optimizes highly dynamic and real-time based routes.
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Business Drivers
Route efficiency
The AMCS route optimization solution gives your operation huge cost reduction through increased route efficiency.
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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
The route optimization solution makes cost reduction go hand in hand with improved customer service levels.
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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
The solution becomes a central operational cockpit for your business securing smooth, real-time based and agile processes
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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
The AMCS digitalization creates an insight into schedules, execution, and performance like never seen before.
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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
How many industries need to plan for hundred thousands of orders in one go, and schedule and re-plan incrementally second by second?
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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
Truly responsive companies instantly handle and respond to customers’ demands and requests.
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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.
Calculate the ROI with our Route Optimization Solution
Route optimization enables businesses to deliver a significant cost reduction in fuel, trucks and more.
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AMCS Intelligent Optimization for route optimization handles:
- Master route optimization for domestic and commercial waste
- Automated master route maintenance for churn management
- Daily dynamic route optimization for ad hoc orders
- Real-time based on the fly re-optimization of routes
- Real-time monitoring of route execution
- Build-in workforce mobile solution
- Ability to perform route optimization of skips and rolling off transport
- Black box route optimization services in ERP, web, and mobility
- Container fill level forecast and automated order-generation
- Range of advanced web portal for stakeholder involvement
- Advanced reporting, BI, and analytics
- Subcontractor management and self-billing
- Standard integration to the AMCS Platform solutions (ERP, Mobile, etc.)
Total Coverage
The AMCS route optimization solution is a comprehensive solution able to handle all types of waste collection, transport, and transfer, whether it is for master routes or dynamic routes.
The advanced functionality is tailored for the waste industry. It is most likely the only system in the world that effectively can handle the many transport types of the waste industry.
The functional scope of the system embraces frequency planning, high-density routes, rolling off and skip transport, hazardous goods, and much more.
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Success Stories
ALBA Group
7500
Employees200
Customer collection pointsWith its two brands – ALBA and Interseroh – and a total of about 7,500 employees, ALBA Group operates within Germany, Europe, and Asia. With an annual turnover of approx. 1.8 billion euros (2016) ALBA Group is one of the leading recycling and environmental services companies as well as raw material providers worldwide
Suez, Recovery & Recycling
11000
Trucks5
Productivity increaseThe global waste collection activities of SUEZ R&R have an annual value of one billion euro. Previously, the operational waste logistics with more than 11,000 vehicles on the road was generally decentralized without the support of a route planning system. Therefore SUEZ decided to implement route optimization globally.
Returpack
2
48
Operating every dayReturpack is the biggest player in the Swedish deposit-refund market. They are responsible for the collection, administration and deposits for 2,700 stores around Sweden.
AES
500
Collections per route5
Stars in reviewsAES is a leading provider of waste management and recycling services in Ireland. The collection routes used to be planned by the drivers, resulting in inefficient routes, missed bins, and dissatisfied customers. AES decided to buy AMCS' Route Planner. Transport optimization is performed with Route Planner, resulting in spectacular cost savings and highly improved customer service.
Karle Recycling
200
Trucks30
Productivity increaseKarle Recycling is a medium-sized disposal group with 200 employees. In their parent company Karle-Recycling deals with complete waste disposal, services, but mostly scrap metal. The AMCS/Recy solution is the heart of our operations and important for Karle Recycling. They improve all our processes in this solution.
Lang Recycling
200
Employees25
Reduced warehouse inventoryLang Recycling stands for smart solutions in the field of metal recycling. They offer our customers from industry to medium-sized businesses, individual disposal concepts and implement these through carefully planned processes. In this way, they offer their customers added value and at the same time protect the environment.
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Our Route Optimization software applies to various industries
Recycling
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