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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?
