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Sheduling, optimising and managing waste collection rounds

Manually designing new waste collection rounds with criteria based on topography, waste production or service frequency is a tedious, time consuming process that is rarely undertaken without plenty of consideration.

Today's rapidly transforming landscape (urban areas), changing volumes of recycling material, advances in waste collection appliances and organisational shifts make the ability to quickly redesign rounds on demand increasingly necessary.

Round Optimisation

However, designing a periodical schedule for waste collection that meets the following objectives:

 

  • exhibiting well calibrated rounds and area specific productivity ratios;
  • optimising human and material resources;
  • complying with existing regulations and road network constraints (access restrictions etc.);
  • taking user-specified scheduling constraints into account  e.g. special collection points or service aim windows;
  • optimal distance, duration and cost...
 

...remains a long and difficult operation, unless you have a convenient and powerful decision making tool at your disposal. Such a tool should within a few clicks/minutes be capable of exploring the "search space of all possible alternatives" and provide the best solution(s) to satisfy given criteria taking the user's local knowledge into account.

The solutions are Waste Optimiser 2.0 and Operations Planner.

Waste Optimiser 2.0 is waste collection specific and available as a web application designed from/with knowledge acquired on the ground. Waste Optimiser is the ideal decision making support solution for all resource sizing, optimisation and management needs for the waste collection domain.
Operations Planner enables staff to optimise resurce allocation for every task, taking numerous constraints into account:
  • working rules (schedules, overtime, holidays, sick leave...)
  • qualifications and competencies
  • skill and capacity levels
  • resource costs
  • staff compatibility

Resource allocation and planning is a major challenge for operations and logistics managers, this challenge is greatly reduced by deploying Operations Planner. 

More information on:

Waste Optimiser

Operations Planner