AMCS Platform - One SaaS platform. Multiple integrated software solutions.
A dynamic, scalable, enterprise-grade, cloud platform purpose-built for waste, recycling & transport companies to operate more efficiently and drive sustainability across all business processes.
Our integrated, scalable solutions support end-to-end optimization of all your operational processes to help your business grow through intelligent digital transformation. Combining industry-specific functionality, e-commerce ingenuity and on-vehicle technologies for a flexible approach to boost productivity across your organization.
With an intelligent platform that predicts and actions in real-time, ensuring companies are equipped with the tools they need to accelerate your business growth and achieving your sustainability goals.
AMCS is committed to continually building for the future, innovating and evolving our solutions and are proud to announce the AMCS Platform Summer Release, the second major release of 2023.
Our continued investment in the digital transformation of core automation processes in this Platform Summer ’23 release delivers real business value’ said Elaine Treacy, Global Product Director at AMCS. ‘’The optimized ‘order to cash’ processes will ensure our customers can get paid faster and with less effort, reducing the risk of overdue payments and bad debt. Our investment in enhanced user experiences and a new equipment inventory feature will allow our customers to drive greater utilization and financial return from their container and truck assets, and thus improve their sales. Our new streamlined ‘purchase to pay ‘will allow our recyclers to purchase feedstock in an efficient and regulatory compliant manner, and to settle with suppliers using cash and checks as well as a new range of exciting digital payment options.
We were literally stuck at the same point that we’ve been at for 15 years and our previous solution wasn’t growing with us. It was pretty much a no brainer that this is what we needed to invest in. Once our team understood the AMCS Platform eliminates some big headaches in their daily jobs, even though there’s a learning curve, everyone has been excited by the fact that we’re transforming our company and moving forward.
Driving increased productivity, efficiency, and margins for our customers.
This Summer 2023 Release demonstrates our continued commitment to digital transformation that drives increased productivity, efficiency, and margins for our customers.
What does digital transformation mean to the AMCS Group? Enabling customer-led growth by leveraging leading technologies in the AMCS Platform and its user experience.
The goal? Simplify, streamline, and automate processes to ensure our customers enjoy the highest levels of productivity, efficiency, and business performance.
The features listed below form part of our major Summer Release issued at the end of June unless there is an asterisk * with the month of a mini release scheduled for either end July or end August.
Key Themes in Summer 2023 Release:
- Orders to cash – get paid faster. Anywhere in the business there are orders to process, AMCS Platform gets you paid faster and with less effort. Faster, seamless orders-to-cash improves your cashflow and your bottom line.
- Intelligent container management. Maximize use of existing container and truck assets increase resource utilization to improve sales and ROI.
- Purchase to pay for Recyclers – Pay faster with assured compliance. Gain control, visibility, and compliance on material purchases and supplier payments. Digitizing seller identification, regulatory compliance, and payments will boost your efficiency.
Cash Collections Management
Delinquent customers and bad debts slow cash flow, reducing payments, revenue generation and margin It is critical to have collection automation to ensure that operators have control and insights over this area to reduce the risk of delinquent payments and increase timely receipt of payments.
A new Cash Collections Management module provides higher levels of control and configurability of key credit control policies including delinquency reminder notices and procedures, including increased automation of statement and reminder generation and improved visibility over all relevant customer communications. This will deliver reduced delinquent payments and increase timely receipt of payments.
The main feature highlights provide include:
New Equipment Inventory Module
This release sees the launch of a new Equipment Inventory function which delivers real-time control and insights into all dimensions of container inventory, including categorization of quantity by size and type, location, service activity and availability for sale.
It ensures operators are maximizing their financial return from their container investment, increasing service utilization, sales revenue and preventing loss of containers and unnecessary asset spend.
The new Equipment Inventory module builds on the strong foundational functionality in this area to provide operators with the ability to track and manage their investment and use of all their container assets.
Digitalization of the Purchase to Pay cycle for recyclers to maximize productivity and efficiency
In this release, we are continuing our digital transformation of the Purchase to Pay process for recyclers with a focus on key steps including seller authentication, compliance, and disbursement payments. We are providing recyclers with an opportunity to pay with conventional instruments such as cash, cash at EZCash ATM, check and ACH (Automatic Clearing House) based payments.
In addition, integration to AMCS Pay will add new real-time digital payment channels including paying to debit card, pre-paid credit cards and a variety of digital wallets. These emerging technologies provide lower cost and higher efficiency alternatives to cash and manual payments.
New Feature Highlights
- Seamless workflows between the scale and financial invoicing and payment processes to ensure fast and auditable processing of all material purchases, reducing delays, data entry errors and eliminating the need for any manual processes.
- Connections to a variety of third-party devices including scale indicators, cameras, ID scanners, signature pads and payment terminals. A new connector to the E-Seek ID scanner is now available. This real-time image and transaction capture ensures compliance with state/federal compliance regulations and reduces date entry effort and the risk of errors.
- Disbursement payments are now embedded in the cash office workflow processes through our AMCS Pay solution. This provides support for conventional cash, check, and ACH payments for both immediate payments for cash customers as well as for account trade payable customers who are paid as part of a payable cycle.
- AMCS Pay will also allow payment via emerging real time digital channels including:
- Pay to seller debit card
- Load to physical pre-paid credit cards
- A new feature allows the cash office agent to modify the scale ticket before billing to reflect any exceptions such as quantity or material mismatches, with such changes being fully auditable
- The Real-Time Inventory Management module which offered a weighted moving average cost valuation by accounting period has been extended to a fixed weighted average cost of goods calculation on shipment.
Dashboard: Immediate Pay to Retail Scrap Supplier