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All the customer and transactional information at hand and up to date is one of the key values of an innovative system that includes a CRMS and a mobile app. This much is clear from an on-demand webinar hosted by Christian Pollklesener, Head of Professional Services at the AMCS Group. In the webinar, he explains some of the many features of the AMCS CRM and the mobile app, and gives a live demo to show the services' flexibility.

To achieve agility and efficiency in highly demanding and dynamic planning environments is one of the benefits organisations and companies can benefit from by centralising their waste collection planning. With a state-of-the-art system in place they can handle multiple intricate visit patterns while at the same time increase efficiencies, reduce costs, driver churn, and improve customer satisfaction.

In a rapidly changing world, for the waste and recycling industry, agility is vital to thrive in times of great complexity and uncertainty. It provides companies with the instruments to adapt to changes quickly and to succeed in a dynamic and fast-moving environment.

How to reduce drivers churn, which in some waste collecting companies annually can lead up to 15 to 20% of the workforce? The answer lays in guided navigation which on route accompanies drivers with turn-by-turn navigation and safety warnings.

Not many industries face so many challenges as metal recyclers on a daily basis. They have to deal with the complex logistic recycling process, rapidly changing prices and fluctuations in the global steel market. Respond quickly and with flexibility to the new circumstances is a major precondition to increase and strengthen their competitive edge.

Sharing knowledge about new technologies with Dutch municipal administrators responsible for waste collection in The Netherlands. According to Alderman Wim Willems of the City of Apeldoorn, this is the key value of the 'Smart cities in the G40' report.

Nowadays, more than ever, metal recyclers are faced with a series of challenges. The complex logistic recycling process, rapidly changing prices and fluctuations in the global steel market require companies to respond quickly and flexibly to new circumstances. Additionally, metal recyclers are also facing the current headwinds of the global economy. The front runners in the metal recycling industry are more resistant to these unpredictable circumstances. Innovative technologies support their agility and enable them to pro-actively respond to developments on the global metal recycling market. Since this increases both efficiency and margins, they can strengthen their competitive edge.

Globally, Suez Group, has more than 11,000 vehicles on the road every day, so optimising waste collection routes is of the utmost importance. The global waste collection activities have an annual value of one billion euro. Optimising a few per cent, can yield substantial cost-saving and depending on the collection activity, result in a 3% to 5% increase in productivity per country.

Flexibility is key. This becomes clear from the webinar on multi-level price management for metal recycling companies, in which Christian Pollklesener, Head of Professional Services at AMCS in Germany, explains the endless possibilities of the AMCS Recycling Software and also shows how easy it is to work with.

Waste and recycling containers are a lot like socks: they tend to meander and mismatch. But when it comes to keeping track of assets in the field, there’s no room for cold feet, as slow or inaccurate container identification opens the door to roaming receptacles and mischarge spectacles.

Just as sinister sorcerers sweep the air each October 31st, solid waste collectors sweep up afterwards. But under COVID’s specter, this year’s Halloween haul is sure to be different. How many people will participate in Halloween 2020, and where and what will they consume and dispose?

Checking planning and adding any ad-hoc orders are the only things that planner Herwin van den Hengel of Omrin has to do every morning to make the daily planning final. As a result of this far-reaching digitisation, the planning department is now stress-free. This is evident from a video presented by AMCS.