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Reducing CO2 emissions in aggregate distribution
The average aggregate consumption per capita in Europe is nearly 6 tons per year, according to the European Aggregates Association. In the UK, the aggregates market produces around 1.7 million tons of CO2 per year. Around 40% of CO2 emissions produced by the industry can be attributed to transporting aggregates.
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Ready-mix concrete: expanding margins for just-in-time deliveries
Distribution of ready-mix concrete is by nature a highly dynamic business. When you’re dealing with a perishable commodity batched to customer specifications, your margins have little to no room for errors or mishaps.
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Food and catering: how to reduce transport costs
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Transporting livestock for breeding: complying with health regulations
Transporting animals for breeding from farm to farm, minimising the time they spend on trucks, involves intricate moves to ensure their health and wellbeing. First, you have a short window for collection and delivery.
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How to make your fuel deliveries cost effective
Your margins leave no room for error or inefficiencies. Product availability is always fluctuating. You have to deal with laid-in costs and prices at fuel depots. High oil prices and other factors can lead to demand contraction.
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Transporting animals to abattoirs: it’s all about efficiencies
Transporting animals isn’t merely about logistics, which is complex by itself, but you also have to worry about their welfare. EU and UK regulations mandate that before a journey even begins, transporters must have arrangements in place to minimise the length of the journey, as well as meet the animals’ needs during that time.
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Meeting customer demands in cement distribution
When Covid-19 significantly slowed down construction, the demand for cement dropped, leading to overcapacity. Up until then, we were consuming 4 billion tons of cement worldwide each year. Now we’re emerging from the impact of the pandemic, and construction companies are rearranging operations that had been suspended.
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How reducing operating costs can reduce your carbon footprint
If you could put fewer vehicles on the road without sacrificing your bottom line, not only would you lower your carbon emissions, you’d also lower your operating costs. That’s an intriguing notion and presents a win-win all around.
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The agile fuel distributor: how to up your game
To use rigid processes is to work in a sequential order of tasks. As you work, you tick the boxes. Orders. Forecasting. Optimisation. Lifting. Delivering. Cash. In other words, business as usual.
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How automated planning lowers distribution costs in the cement industry
If the worldwide cement industry wants to profit from the growing demand for global construction activities, then companies have to drive efficiencies into their operations.
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Innovative technology tackles the extremely complex planning of livestock transport
Automated calculation of the consequences of manual interventions in the planning process is just one example of the added value AMCS Livestock Planner provides livestock transport companies. This much is clear from the webinar 'Automated planning for optimising livestock transport'.
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How the oil and gas industry optimises down-stream distribution
Downstream oil and gas distribution is where it all comes together: distribution of liquid fuel to tanks and gas stations based on automatic order generation of replenishments and just-in-time deliveries.
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How to boost efficiency and reduce planning time in animal transport
Reduce transport costs and decrease planning time. These are just two of the main advantages of AMCS Livestock Planner, benefits that are clearly explained in this webinar about Automated Planning for Optimising the Transport of Slaughter Animals, including a case study from Danish Crown, the world’s largest pork exporter, showing how they achieved a 5% reduction in transport costs and a 25% decrease in planning time.
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How to improve agility in building materials distribution
The global market for building materials is on the rise. The upcoming year’s global growth will be driven by rapid industrialisation and urbanisation, and the increase in mega construction projects. All building materials sectors can profit from this upward trend, including cement, ready-mix and aggregates.
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Automating planning of livestock transport boosts profitability of loads, trips and vehicles
Livestock transport companies automating their trips can plan both more efficient and cost-effective. With this, they profit from a series of benefits. “It increases the profitability of loads, trips and vehicles due to cost savings with so much as 5 to 25%.
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How technology helps to improve animal wellbeing and health during transport
Healthy and stress-free animals. During transport, there is nothing more important for livestock. Doing well the whole time is of an absolute priority. Transport time is determined by the time frame which allows the animals to be on the truck. State-of-the-art technologies enable the planning to keep the transport time to a minimum and with that to improve the health and wellbeing of the animals during their transit.
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How to reduce operating costs
With COVID-19 having disrupted supply chains, the construction industry needs reliability from building materials firms. Building materials is an industry that has always operated on tight margins. Protecting those margins is critical, which makes reducing operating costs a priority in the current environment. The question is, how do you provide a reliable service while cutting costs? This is about improving customer service levels, while spending less.
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Creating value in your building materials company
As the way we live and work changes, the building materials industry must readjust. Specifically, companies need to re-evaluate their business models. Part of any business model focuses on where and how value is created within the organisation. In the current environment, business models must focus on creating value through operational performance. To accomplish this, digitalisation is critical.
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2020: how will the business of building materials unfold?
Industry analysts predicted that 2020 would be much the same as 2019 for construction: overall market growth despite cost pressures, shortages in labour, and trends towards fixed-bid projects.
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Global aggregates market is on the rise
Two of the major opportunities for the aggregates industry are the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation in developing economies and the increasing mega construction projects across the globe.
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Smart optimisation provides cement producers both agility and efficiency
AMCS Intelligent Optimisation reduces costs and improves customer service in cement distribution
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Smart optimisation the basis for emptying Omrin’s underground containers
Omrin firmly believes dynamic scheduling and route optimisation allow dispatchers to organise the emptying of underground containers more quickly while benefitting from a stress-free working environment.
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Predictable costs, SLA and access to competent resources on AMCS Premium Service agreements
Having the backup of an international team of experienced routing experts and dedicated service managers. With AMCS Premium Services companies with a more business-critical routing solution, profit from a series of benefits.
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Webinars spotlighting the opportunities for transport optimisation in the construction supply chain
With a series of short (and free) webinars, the AMCS Group will spotlight the building materials and construction industry, focusing on optimising the distribution of ready-mix concrete, cement and aggregates.
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Optimising master routes leads to 10-20% savings in waste collection
Waste collection routes for household and commercial waste can be planned 10 to 20% more efficiently.
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How to juggle 30-tonne trucks
How does 3,827m3 of ready-mix concrete get delivered just-in-time at the new research facilities of the Niels Bohr Institute being built in Copenhagen? With a series of 30-tonne RMC trucks arriving and unloading in sequences assuring a just-in-time delivery.
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What is AMCS Premium Services?
AMCS Premium Services is not something new! It is a service offered and available to AMCS routing customers to accelerate business success.
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Intelligent Optimisation increases agility of waste collection operations
In this rapidly changing world customers are expecting a 24/7 responsive and user-friendly self-service demanding full operational insight and agility. Companies lacking responsiveness risk a fortune and put stress on their organisation.
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Pilot project: through guided navigation route information is digitally available for Veolia drivers in Germany
The knowledge of experienced drivers on how routes are driven in the most efficient way, is now digitally available for all other colleagues. For Veolia Germany, this is one of the main benefits of guided navigation.
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Intelligent optimisation drives efficiencies in construction and demolition waste logistics
Due to the complexity, optimisation of the construction and demolition waste logistics are a true challenge in every aspect.
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Optimisation software for dynamic distribution of ready-mix concrete
Just-in-time delivery of ready-mix concrete within extremely short time windows. Orders for construction sites must meet high requirements.
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Supporting the smart city
The development of smart cities is growing at a dizzying pace. Expenditure worldwide is projected to exceed U.S. $158 billion by 2022, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).
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Beating the logistic challenges of ready-mix concrete
You already know the challenges you face distributing ready-mix concrete, but laying everything out can give you a different perspective on how to address the issues.
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Adopting best practice in cement distribution
Cement distributors face especially difficult challenges, with the cost of transportation constantly fluctuating. Around 30—35% of the price of cement comes from the distribution costs.
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Challenges in Downstream Oil & Gas Distribution
With the transportation of the downstream segment accounting for 65% of the global consumption of oil, there is ample opportunity to optimise this part of the oil & gas industry
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As urban areas grow, so must your approach to waste management
Increased waste generation makes traditional means of collecting bins impractical and puts a tremendous financial strain on waste management companies and municipals
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HERE Technologies
Yes, location intelligence can help you take out the trash, but if we're to build a glossy, streamlined digital future, the waste management industry has to be a part of the picture.
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Bringing 3rd Generation Optimisation to the Fleets of today
3rd generation optimisation is about using digital engagement from order to cash
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Digitise or go home: Transforming your operations
Europe’s roads are busy, with 70% of all goods being transported by trucks. Unfortunately, the industry is fraught with inefficiencies – for example, 20% of all trips are without a payload.
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Is it possible to capitalise on the planet's interests?
When growth and environmental friendliness go hand in hand
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The Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical devices, machines and vehicles, wirelessly connected to each other, exchanging data. It’s revolutionising the logistics industry, allowing real-time updates on every area of operations.
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The dark side: lights-out logistics
For the uninitiated, lights-out manufacturing is the digitised, automated process that doesn’t involve any human intervention.
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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 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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7 elements that lead to a successful implementation of a transport management system
With these 7 tips, your company will be better equipped for a successful implementation of a transport management system
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The impact of Big Data on route planning
Big Data sounds rather vague, but it’s incredibly valuable.
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How is the World of Logistics Affected by Globalization?
Whether by setting up multiple facilities in strategic international locations or building business alliances with foreign suppliers, manufacturing firms across the world are truly going global.
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Three fleet trends to watch in 2018
The trucking and lorry industry continues to evolve with the latest technologies and relevant events that impact the sector. Here’s a look at what you should expect to see in industry news for the rest of the year.
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3 Reasons to Consider Digitizing your Fleet
The drive for greater operational efficiency has led to a rapid growth in the availability and affordability of software and on-vehicle technology for fleet operators and road hauliers.
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4 Top Tips for Overcoming Issues with Home Delivery
The rapid growth in home delivery logistics has seen it become increasingly complex. Allocation to a specific day no longer meets with consumer expectations.
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5 Keys to Commercial Route Optimization
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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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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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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3 Key Considerations When Installing New Scales / Scale House
Are you considering installing new scales or a scale house at your site?
