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Innovations in Route Optimisation in Waste Collection and Transport
Innovations in
Route Optimisation in
Waste Collection and Transport
• Introduction to AMCS
• About AMCS
• Innovations:
• Introduce agility
• Route slotting
• Dynamic optimisation
• Auto-order generation
Presentation
About AMCS
AMCS Group
GlasgowSkara
Copenhagen
SydneyRotterdam
Philadelphia
Paris
LimerickCorporate HQ
Amsterdam
Boston
Auckland
Dublin
Berlin
Enterprise management
Mobile Solutions
Vehicle Technology
Route Optimisation
Web Portals
Reporting & Analytics
Group Products
Selected Customers
Introduce Agility
in Waste Management
Master routes
Order-to-Cash
Orders Optimisation Collection Processing Cash
Agility is
competitive
edge!
Traditional form
is sequential
and Agility
Time slottingAdapting
capacityOrder changes Price & capacity
Instant PoD and
billingRoute slotting
Collection
Processing
Cash
Master routes Orders Optimisation Collection Processing Cash
Orders
Optimisation
No
unnecessary
order deadline
Agile plans and
limited plan
locking
Order-to-Cash and Agility
Dynamic Routes
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Cost
Planning
iterations
New plan External change
Change to
order
Urgent
order
Time slotted
order
Time slotted order
• Huge savings:
• 5-25% reductions in CO2 emissions,
mileage and driving time
• 5-15% reduction in number of
vehicles
• 25-75% reduction in time spend on
planning and administration
• Decrease in time spent on follow-up
through integrated IT systems
Business Value: Savings
• Superior customer satisfaction:
• Significantly improved customer
service levels and visit accuracy
• Digital engagement and customer
self-service
• Precise and short response times on
customer requests
• Ongoing ETA updates to customers
• Proactive handling of service issues
• On demand and just in time collections
management
Business Value: Customer Satisfaction
Route slotting, dynamic
optimisation & auto-order
generation
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Productivity index
Months
Manual master
route planning
Automatic
route maintenance
Churn and route
deterioration
Churn and route
deterioration
Master Routes: Route Slotting
Automatic master route
optimisation
Extra
earnings
Extra
earnings
Automatic
route slotting
Example of Route Slotting
• Taking a new recurring order:
• Frequency of 1 collection per
week
• Customer prefers Tuesday,
which has an internal cost of $10
per stop
• Alternatives are suggested to
customer
• Agreement for Thursday, which
reduces internal cost by $2 per
stop
2. Customer
accepts
Thursday
By agreeing on
Thursday, internal
cost is reduced by
with 20%
1. Customer
suggests
Tuesday
• Business and use:
• $17B revenue waste management company
• Uses Waste Planner for several lines of
businesses and countries (in Central Europe)…
• … hereunder for route maintenance with instant
route slotting in SAP ERP during order-taking
• Results:
• 5%-10% increase in collected commercial
containers per hour
• High route quality and sharing vehicles across
areas
SUEZ Case Study
Dynamic Route Optimisation
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Cost
Planning
iterations
New plan External change
Change to
order
New
order
Rolling Optimisation
Plan:
-2 days
Plan:
-1 day
Plan:
Today
Real-time Optimisation
Plan:
7.00 a.m.
Plan:
10.40 a.m.
Plan:
1.45 p.m.
Short Movie
• Business and use:
• Dutch/UK company active in Benelux,
France and UK with +2,500 vehicles
• Uses Waste Planner for several lines of
businesses and countries…
• …hereunder for dynamic transport
optimisation of roll-off and skips
• Results:
• Skips transport: 3.2% reduction of total
costs
Renewi Case Study
Auto-Order Generation Process
Historical data
Forecastedfill-levels
Fill level measurement
Time of collection
Auto-order
Optimisation
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Picking Bins
Master routes:
HarvestingForecasting:
Picking
• Business and use
• 250 employees and 150 waste trucks in Twente
region in the Netherlands
• Uses Waste Planner for several lines of businesses
and countries…
• … hereunder for optimisation of on-demand
collection of underground waste container
• Results:
• Productivity increased by 20-25%.
• Filling degree of underground containers increased
from 45-55% to 75-85%
• Reduction in mileage of 35%
Twente Milieu
Closing Remarks
Thank You!
