The start point for tightening up your cost management is to look at where the money goes. In other words, analyze your budget to see where the indicators of inefficiency might be showing themselves.
The short-haul waste transportation industry has a huge opportunity ahead of it as companies come under more and more pressure to dispose of their waste in a responsible and environmentally acceptable manner. With a focus on solid waste management, this blog outlines what the four major benefits can be for your business, and for your customers.
Protecting the environment is now a top agenda issue for every company. Acting irresponsibly attracts enormous attention, and usually results in fines, as well as the consequent damage to a business' reputation. Increasingly tough legislation makes it virtually impossible for companies to avoid doing 'the right thing'; keeping their communities – and the environment as a whole – clean and waste-free.
While most of us are familiar with the frequently cited benefits of proper solid waste management – conservation of natural resources, reduction of air, water and land pollution, support for community development – the advantages go beyond simply protecting our health and environment.
Here are four benefits your organization and your customers can expect from proper solid waste management.
1. efficiency through digital processes
The biggest benefit of a solid waste management program is the improvement it can bring to your operational efficiency and productivity. A major part of increasing operational efficiency is knowing where waste needs to be taken and making sure it gets there on time, safely. Through optimization of municipal solid waste collection and transportation routes, and specialized waste collection, storage, and disposal equipment and vehicles, you can more effectively haul waste to where it belongs.
Our role – and our goal – is to help improve your waste transportation efficiency by streamlining the entire collection and transport process, from order to invoice. This is all about and creating a more dynamic experience through real-time data. The core modules within our transport management system, AMCS Bulk Hauling, keep you focused on growing and simplifying your waste-hauling business:
- ticketing: Get all of your ticket data accurately, conveniently and in real-time (without all the paper). Compared to paper-based ticketing, the automated ticketing within AMCS Bulk Hauling is reliable, cost-effective, and iron-clad against the possibility of human error.
- dispatch: Quickly update your dispatchers on your fleet’s progress to help them make more informed decisions about where to route your waste transporters.
- GeoTrack: Making use of real-time GPS to track your loads, our GeoTrack module can facilitate your waste collection and transfer station operations by guaranteeing that your equipment and your drivers are being employed as effectively as possible.
2. team motivation and customer satisfaction
All too often, waste haulers can get bogged down by vehicle downtime, penalties stemming from improper waste management or transportation procedures, or unhappy customers. Issues like these can make everyone in the organization tense, from the CEO to the drivers. Work is less enjoyable, burnout becomes more likely, and your brand image and reputation take a hit.
Another benefit of a proper solid waste management plan is the boost you can expect to your organization’s health and overall stamina. Effective solid waste management reduces company stress and keeps everyone engaged. It also encourages all stakeholders to work together, from local governments and private businesses to the individual waste storage, treatment and disposal facilities. Ultimately, it’s you, the waste hauler, who does the heavy lifting and connects them all.
Start strengthening those relationships and enhancing your brand image by providing greater transparency to your customers. The invoicing module in AMCS Bulk Hauling let’s you invoice from anywhere, automatically with the correct customer contract. To make the experience more convenient for your customers, there is also the Order Manager where your customers can go to place orders with you directly wherever they are. By remaining transparent and doing everything you can to improve their bottom line, your own financial position will improve too.
3. optimize your assets
Grow your business without the growing pains by helping the decision-makers in your organization evaluate your waste management activities more accurately.
Whether it’s municipal, industrial or agricultural waste you’re hauling, streamlining your waste business with proper solid waste management allows you to scale your efforts without having to hire more dispatchers. By keeping your dispatcher-to-driver ratio low, you can increase the number of trucks you’re dispatching without implementing any additional dispatch resources, thereby eliminating overhead costs.
4. look after your people
Expect your organization’s work-life balance to improve as well. With the right fleet logistics solution, it becomes easier to schedule loads, keep your drivers happy, and get them home safely and on time every night. To help your waste hauling operation remain more driver-centric, our Electronic Logging Device (ELD) module within AMCS Bulk Hauling allows you to maintain a more accurate log of your drivers’ hours of service. There is also a driver payroll module you can easily integrate with your existing billing system, enabling you to customize your payroll contracts with the correct billing period for each of your drivers.
When it comes to back-office efficiencies, our business intelligence module enables your team to review all of the waste hauling metrics that matter the most, directly on their smartphones.