Two market market segments for solid waste are
- Commercial or Front or rear loaders
- Construction or Roll Offs or C&D
Features in TAC to address these issues are
- Route recommendation tool that allows selection by day of week and route - This makes packing the service zone a simple clerical action and quickly id's new sites that are outside of the profitable zone so alternatives can be considered to service this zone with:
- Pricing alternative
- Expanding marketing in new zone
- Rearranging service routes to give coverage
Construction or Roll Offs or C&D
Construction is an event or work order or ticket based service.. The business is capital intensive cost of roll offs\bins and transport vehicle. Profitability is maintained by turn over in roll off usage e.g. roll off exchanged or removed and emptied. The first business issue is not to have idle cans on customers locations. Key to monitory this is an overdue unit report e.g. Number of days on site since the last billing event. Each work order or event profitability is driven by the hours taken to complete the job. Having a measure of profitability by work order is key to identifying and correcting operational problems. e.g. profitability by work order, route, driver, customer or service location.
Features in TAC to address these issues are:
- Overdue unit report that allows selection of locations with units on site longer then the selected number of days. Report include service location demographics so it can be used as a call sheet
- Production tracking that give before tax gross profit at the work order level and rolled up to quickly identify operational areas of conccern
- Driver
- Route
- Service location
- Customer
- Etc.
- Web Service Tablet
- Customer signature
- Driver note maintains previous entry Enter serial number, etc without loss of previous entry in note
- Up to six line items for driver to populate to handle billing events e.g. Overage, Recycled items, etc
- Full site information
- Site notes by driver with history