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About the latest news, events and blogs
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Millennials and the Future of our Environment
In the waste and recycling industry, whoever is generating the waste tends to be analyzed first and given that millennials are the largest group currently contributing to the waste stream.
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How recyclers can improve materials processing and sales
The materials recycling sector is incredibly complex. For instance, as part of the European Commission’s strategy, changes in design and manufacturing will enable higher rates for recycling plastics so that by 2030, more than half of the material’s waste generated will be recycled.
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Piney Woods Sanitation
The valuable insight provided from AMCS’ software allowed Piney Woods Sanitation to analyze their performance in order to grow the business.
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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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Top tips for choosing an in-cab mobile solution
In this guide, Ken Tierney, Product Manager AMCS, offers input and advice for choosing an in-cab mobile solution for your fleet.
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How do you get (even more) people to recycle their waste?
Recycling waste is an important way to reduce the waste of resources, pollution and CO2-emissions.
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Improving the inbound quality and evaluation process at your facility
Insight into ways you can improve the quality and evaluation process at your facility.
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Implementing a PAYT scheme can be done
Part of creating a Circular Economy for a sustainable planet involves recycling and waste reduction.
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Liberty Tire Recycling
Liberty Tire Recycling has been dedicated to finding new and better ways to reclaim, recycle and reuse scrap tires as the base of innovative, useful product
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How Municipals can stop revenue leakage and improve recycling operations
In this article we sat down with Arun Ramaraj, Product Manager of AMCS Platform for Municipals, to learn his thoughts on 5 of the most commonly asked questions asked by municipal customers.
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Demand Planning
Planning the required inventory for production or material slot sales can be a bit of a nightmare. How can processes be improved?
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Can metal thieves be deterred?
Metal crime is growing problem in Ireland and the UK. How can scrap dealers do more to protect their yard workers, property and infrastructure?
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Why is plastic recycling so difficult?
Only 5% - 9% of all plastic manufactured in the world is being recycled. The battle against plastic pollution is here - what's your move?
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AMCS: A complete Enterprise-grade software solution for Paper recycling
Read the interview with Mark Abbas from AMCS about paper recycling in the digital edition of Global Recycling.
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3 Ways to Avoid Recycling Contamination
The recent changes in the recycling commodity market underline one very dirty problem with the current global recycling system – contamination. The vast majority of recyclable material which was being collected and shipped over-seas was filled with contaminated material.
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AMCS acquires the Dutch software company PieterBas Automatisering.
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Webinar Using Technology to Gain an Advantage in Metal Recycling
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5 tips to make your business (more) green
Companies with clear Corporate Social Responsibility mandates are on the right track with ways of working that support a circular economy, and operating under the three Rs: reduce, recycle, and reuse.
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Are You Joining the Zer0-Waste Movement?
Are You Joining the Zer0-Waste Movement? What is Zero Waste? And why has it become such a relevant subject across cities and individuals across the globe? The overarching goal of Zero-Waste is about eliminating the accumulation of waste in landfills. It is about re-evaluating the structure of our current economy and lifestyles, with hopes to evolve into a more circular one. It's about saving our planet.
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3 Ways to Integrate Your Disparate Systems
Are disparate systems slowing down your waste and recycling operations? The Waste and Recycling Industry is highly competitive and quite complicated with all its moving parts. Especially now in a rapidly changing recycling commodities landscape, there is more demand on waste and recycling businesses to operate at peak efficiency.
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The value of recycling metals
By rethinking what we throw away we can reverse the prevailing mindset of the proverbial disposable society. We all need to promote recycling and pressure our governments to do the same, while encouraging the sustainable trade of recyclable materials to green-driven companies across the world.
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It’s time to get your head in the cloud
Ultimately, waste management companies are only really left with two choices. Either they carry on as they are and pray that they are able to manage any disruption when it occurs, or they are proactive and make changes that can both protect their businesses and support its continued growth.
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Payment Challenges & the Solution
The way we make payments is evolving – and fast. With new services being introduced, the infrastructure must adapt if it’s to handle these developments.
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3 Solutions to Prevent Missed Collections
Residential waste and recycling operators across the country all deal with one very common issue, missed collections. What most people do not realize is that a simple missed stop can be one of the most costly occurrences to a waste hauler.
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Metal Recycling: will digitalisation solve key industry challenges?
The global metal recycling industry is growing at an unprecedented rate. Is digitalisation the answer to key industry challenges?
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Sustainable waste collection in liveable cities using forecasting algorithms
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Launching the AMCS Platform in the Netherlands
AMCS organized the successful seminar: Digital Transformation in the Waste Industry in Louwman Museum The Hague.
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Management Priorities
Norway is one of the most digital countries in Europe, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re doing enough to progress. Whether you’re a private waste management company or municipal, you have a level of digital maturity.
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5 Questions About Software
Evan Schwartz of AMCS Group addresses 5 questions about recycling software in 'Ask the Expert', Recycling Today.
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Ragn-Sells and AMCS Group partner to enable intelligent fleet and logistics optimisation
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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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The state of payments
As margins continue to squeeze, businesses must turn to digital to improve operational efficiencies, and that includes their payment system.
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The Future of Software Platforms for the Waste & Recycling Industry
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AMCS launches new seamless payment solution, AMCS Pay
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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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How to get your ERP software wrong
Generic ERP engineers are plentiful, but the truth is, there are few best-in-class engineers specific to waste and recycling management. Just because it’s a big player doesn’t guarantee you the industry-expertise you need.
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AMCS Customer Portal | What it means for you and your customers
Digital customer care can increase satisfaction by up 33% and streamline resources.
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AMCS Awarded FEL Certification for FEL (front end loader) Weighing System
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How are best-in-class municipalities achieving their waste management goals?
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Retura NT found the complete cloud solution to help their customers
As a part of Retura NT's business vision, they focus on digitalisation, improving efficiency and better customer service.
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The Digital Customer Experience
Customer experience is defined as the quality of a customer’s interactions with a company’s products and services. The better the experience, the better the results.
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AMCS Launches AMCS Customer Portal
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How best-in-class waste management organisations save their piece of the planet
How are the big players in the market managing to make a profit while also reducing their carbon footprint?
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Recycling Today
As the company grew, it continued its aggressive investment in its technologies and people, but it also acquired companies that added strategic value.
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PSAI Convention & Tradeshow
We are headed to Mobile, Alabama for the annual PSAI Convention and Tradeshow. Please stop by booth 110 to learn more about software to manage your portable sanitation business.
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Knowledge sharing across industries in the pursuit of intelligent route optimisation
Route planning and transport optimisation can be a complex business. That’s why knowledge sharing is vital, even across different industries
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Digital Transformation
What are the biggest hurdles to a successful digital transformation in waste management & recycling? Different stages require a different focus, each with their own challenges.
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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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How mature is the waste management industry
Did you ever wonder how mature the waste management industry really is when it comes to digitalization? What does digitized maturity really mean? And how do we measure it?
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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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The Digital Transformation Barometer
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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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AMCS Announces Acquisition of Recy Systems
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AMCS Announces Acquisition of Recy Systems
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Webinar: 4th Generation Software
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Webinar On Demand: Improve your driver efficiency and data quality!
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Webinar On Demand: New and more complex challenges when planning waste collection
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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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Press Release: Expansion plans for 100 people over the next three years as AMCS opens its Global Headquarters in Limerick
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On-Demand Webinar: The 4th Generation Software Platform for the Waste & Recycling Industry
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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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City of Utrecht
The Utrecht Municipality recently switched to the latest release of our Enterprise Management solution.
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Rotterdam opts for IT platform from AMCS
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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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Webinar
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Webinar
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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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Strong technology focus at RWM 2018
Technology is set to take centre stage at next week’s RWM exhibition in Birmingham and we are delighted that both our CMO, Mark Abbas and UK Business Development Manager, Conor Dowd, are among the list of exciting speakers joining the event’s conference programme.
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Van Munster joins AMCS Platform
Van Munster selected the AMCS Platform, AMSC’s full product suite. It is a choice that is underpinned by the broad range of solutions being offered and AMCS’s clearly expressed vision about the future.
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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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AMCS software solution to help Franzefoss further improve waste and recycling collection in Norway
Franzefoss’ decision strengthens AMCS’ position as a leading software and technology provider in the waste and recycling markets.
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Streamline & Automate Billing & AR Collections
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Optimize Your Scale House Operations
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Elmia Waste & Recycling 2018
Visit us at stand A05:08 at Elmia - Your gateway to the Nordic Waste & Recycling Business
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A Higher Level of Service
kmG Hauling breaks free from manual processes and streamlines their back-office operations with AMCS’ Enterprise Management Solution.
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Webinar -- Go Paperless with Real Time Data
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AMCS acquires DesertMicro
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Improve Your Overall Operational 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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Webinar: Improve Sales & Enhance Customer Service
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Webinar Wednesdays
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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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Press Release
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IFAT 2018
Visit us at Stand A6.205 (Hall A6) at IFAT, world's Leading Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Waste and Raw Materials Management. Find more info online at: https://www.ifat.de
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RenoNorden optimises its waste collection with AMCS implementation
AMCS has further expanded its Nordics business by implementing its advanced route optimisation solution at RenoNorden.
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AMCS Helps Waste and Recycling Companies Combat Challenges with Digital Solutions
Michael Winton, president of North America at AMCS Group, speaks to Waste360 about how AMCS is supporting the waste and recycling industry with its diverse solutions offerings.
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ISRI
Meet us in Las Vegas for the ISRI Convention & Expo - April 14-19, 2018. Learn more about AMCS and our Recycling Solution at Booth 1822
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Webinar
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Seminar
April 17th AMCS, The Netherlands, will organise a seminar focus on the AMCS Platform and all facets it has to offer. This event will be in Dutch.
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AMCS helps Red Hill School have fun whilst getting fit with outdoor exercise equipment as part of CSR project
As part of their Corporate Social Responsibility initiative, AMCS partnered with Red Hill School in Patrickswell, Limerick which is a co-educational specialist school for pupils with Autism Spectrum Disorder, where there are 71 pupils in attendance.
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PSAI Convention and Tradeshow
Learn more about the AMCS Platform and visit us at PSAI Convention and Tradeshow Booth 216.
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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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Fully automated waste collection in the Caribbean
Selikor has been working with the AMCS Enterprise Management software for more than 20 years.
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Press Release
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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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Ostlandet Gjenvinning:
AMCS Norway has a new working relationship with Østlandet Gjenvinning (ØG).
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Software success for TJ Waste & Recycling
TJ Waste & Recycling serves both commercial and domestic customers with a range of waste collection, recycling and disposal solutions in the South East of the UK.
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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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How Software is Helping Waste & Recycling Back Office Operations
How Software is Helping Modernise Waste & Recycling Back Office Operations. Technology has played an important role in the evolution of the waste and recycling industry.
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B&M Waste Services chooses AMCS
B&M Waste Services has completed the implementation of an Enterprise Management Platform and Mobile solution from AMCS
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AMCS at ICT & Logistiek 2017
Visit AMCS on 28-30 November at ICT & Logistiek 2017 in the Netherlands! We also host a daily seminar around Intelligent Optimisation on November 28th and 29th.
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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 Group sing a song for Autism.
A musical fund raising event was hosted by AMCS Group on Thursday 19th October, at The Loft, Locke bar in Limerick, in order to raise funds for ‘Red Hill School’.
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Canadian Waste & Recycling Expo
Meet us in Niagara Falls for the Canadian Waste & Recycling Expo October 25 – 26, 2017, hosted at Scotiabank Convention Centre Learn more about the AMCS Platform and visit us at Booth 1122
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RWM 2017
AMCS recently exhibited at the RWM exhibition in Birmingham.
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Press Release
Today AMCS announced the release of two new key solutions on the AMCS Platform: AMCS Analytics and AMCS Digital Engagement.
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RWM
AMCS will be exhibiting the latest software and on-vehicle technology for the waste and recycling sector.
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Digital transformation | Changing the game
Technology, ICT and big data are playing increasingly important roles in most industries and waste is no exception.
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AMCS to support development of Circular Economy
AMCS has become the latest Supporter of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Corporate Citizenship Center
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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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Digital enablement expedites business growth
The pace of change is accelerated by digital enablement, and we’re seeing a correlation from the rate of digitisation of a company’s data flows to the growth rate of those businesses. The degree to which companies digitally enable their organisation becomes an exponential growth factor in their ability to expand.
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Is your waste business agile?
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AMCS supports local charity Dόchas
AMCS have chosen to partner with Autism Support Services in the Limerick area for their 2017 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Project.
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AMCS webinar – Route planning and optimisation for home couriers
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AMCS invests in digital engagement platform with the acquisition of Senddr
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AMCS webinar – Why risk investing in ERP?
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Go paperless, with in-cab mobile
A day’s work successfully completed. The driver comes back to the office, and is minus a ticket due to a coffee spillage or an unfortunate gust of wind as he closes the cab door.
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AMCS Group reports record year!
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PSAI Convention and tradeshow Orlando
We are looking forward to connecting with you at the PSAI (Portable Sanitation Association International) Annual Convention and Tradeshow this year in Orlando. Please stop by Booth #P9.
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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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AMCS Webinar – the benefits of in-cab mobile solutions
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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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Visit AMCS at this year’s major waste conference in Norway
The theme of the conference this year is how we create a Circular Future. We will be presenting our optimizing technical and software solutions for the waste and recycling industry. Our solutions are designed around industry best practice. It streamlines operations to deliver enhanced productivity, reduced costs, increased profitability and overall company revenue.
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Visit AMCS at this year’s major waste conference in Norway
The theme of the conference this year is how we create a Circular Future.
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Terberg Matec UK Soapbox race
With a collective of three soap box cart teams, Terberg Matec UK raced in the debut Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice Soap Box Derby event on Saturday 1st October 2016 in Rotherham.
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What AMCS Does to Help Haulers Run Their Businesses
One of the most established players in the space is Oxford, Pa.-based AMCS Group, a supplier of integrated software and vehicle technology for the waste, recycling and material resources industries.
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3 Key Considerations When Installing new weighbridges
Are you considering installing new weighbridges at your site?
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Webinar: Drive efficiency with 3rd generation route optimisation
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Efficient planning optimizes collection of bottles and cans
IT solution improves service levels and reduces miles on the road for Returpack, Sweden’s largest container-deposit company
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Webinar: Route optimisation within domestic waste
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Has the time for PAYT arrived?
Mark Abbas, Chief Marketing Officer for AMCS discusses recent support for PAYT systems and whether changes in the economic, technological and social landscape mean that the time is right to start to accelerate their uptake.
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Nottingham City Council invests in new AMCS software and mobile technology solution
Raw materials supplier cnc opts for amcs fleet planner route optimization software.
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The Cleaner Planet Convention: A great success
Technology, ICT and big-data play an increasingly significant role with the current sustainability demands of our planet.
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Join us at the CIWM Sustainability and Resource awards
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Webinar: Optimize your commercial waste routes
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CNC opts for AMCS Fleet Planner
Raw materials supplier cnc opts for amcs fleet planner route optimization software Cnc-group further demonstrates its commitment to improving customer service through the implementation of new solution from amcs.
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The Cleaner Planet Convention
The Cleaner Planet Convention is about more than waste and recycling. The circular economy is on everyone’s mind
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Join us at Recycling 2016
AMCS will be exhibiting the enterprise and cloud software for the waste management and recycling industry. Come along to stand 377 to learn more!
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Join us at CIWM’s SRC
The Scottish Resources Conference is Scotland's biggest and most important event for sustainability, resource and waste management professionals and is run in partnership by CIWM and Zero Waste Scotland.
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Join us at Fjernvarmedagene
AMCS will be exhibiting dynamic and static weighbridge solutions for the district heating industry. Come along to our stand # 6 to learn more.
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Countrystyle Recycling chooses AMCS technology
Kent-based resource management and recycling specialist Countrystyle Recycling has invested £275,000 in a new system from AMCS, the leading supplier of integrated software and vehicle technology for the waste, recycling and resource management sector.
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AMCS Group acquires GMT Europe
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Join us at RWM 2016
AMCS will be exhibiting the end-to-end suite of software and vehicle technology solutions for the waste management and recycling industry. Come along to stand 4F30-G31 to learn more.
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Meet AMCS at DAKOFA’s annual conference 2016
Please join us at DAKOFA’s annual conference (The Danish Waste Association) for a talk of how AMCS can help your company with critical operational and business management processes within the resource management and logistics industry.
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Webinar: Route optimization in commercial and industrial waste
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ALBA Group to automate vehicle route planning with AMCS
AMCS, the leading supplier of integrated software and vehicle technology for the waste, recycling and resource sector has signed an agreement with leading recycling and environmental services provider ALBA Group.
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Mick George selects AMCS system for growth
Mick George Ltd, one of the UK’s leading suppliers to the construction industry, has invested in a new business management system from AMCS to support the company’s ambitious growth strategy.
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Meet AMCS at ICT & Logistiek 2016
Visit AMCS on 2-3 November at ICT & Logistiek 2016 in the Netherlands!
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Visit AMCS at IFAT 2016
Visit AMCS at IFAT 2016 at stand B1.304 from May 30 – June 3 in Messe München in Munich, Germany
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Kuehne + Nagel improves planning capabilities with AMCS
Kuehne + Nagel Logistics has started the roll out of AMCS Fleet Planner to optimize route and resource planning with this Advanced Planning and Scheduling system (APS).
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AMCS named as finalist in National Recycling Awards
AMCS has been named as a finalist in the prestigious National Recycling Awards with the company’s market leading FEL Weigh system shortlisted in the Innovation of the Year (Equipment) category.
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Seminar on AMCS' end-to-end solution, April 12
Seminar End-to-end solution for the waste and recycling industry
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Routing seminar in the Netherlands, April 14
Reduce costs and improve customer service levels
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Spelthorne improves routing with new AMCS service
AMCS, the world’s leading supplier of resource management software and on-vehicle technology for the waste and recycling sector, has been selected by Spelthorne Borough Council to undertake a route optimization project across all the Borough’s kerbside collection services.
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Time to take a measured approach to waste collection
For some time we have realized the potential commercial benefits of on-board weighing, particularly when combined with either an radio-frequency identification (RFID) or GPS matching to associate data with a specific customer or container, says Ken Tierney, product owner of AMCS, supplier of smart resource software and vehicle technology for the resource industry.