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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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!