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Bright Core Waste is an end to end business management solution for waste companies. From customer management to optimised collections, Bright Core Waste leads the way in integrated systems. Intrinsically spatial by design, Bright Core Waste utilises the most advanced spatial analysis to bring maximum operational efficiency for collection fleets while retaining automated processes for administration.

Bright Core Waste is highly scalable and available customised to order. Here's a few key functional areas:

If your waste company wants to maximise efficiency, unify disparate systems and minimise system overheads, then Bright Core Waste will measure up to your expectations. Talk to us about specification and deployment options with a scale to suit your organisation.

Introducing Bright Core Waste

Bright Core Waste is a tailored management system for Waste companies. A highly scalable solution, Bright Core Waste is all that is required to run a waste company of any size. Moreover, Bright Core Waste is driven by business intelligence specific to the organisation using it, so the software adapts to you rather than forcing you to adapt to your software. The unique component based Bright Core platform serves to effortlessly merge operational logic with administrative and management functionality - a typical stumbling block of enterprise systems. Waste companies are fast paced organisations where the focus on operations is extremely high. Recognising this Bright Core Waste maintains management information in real time, so the focus can remain operational but a management overview is always available at a glance so you can get on with business but not lose sight of the big picture.

Bright Core Waste is modular by design, so the system can be arranged to best suit your business. The product is also an integration platform that can pull together disparate systems and extract reporting and performance from systems that weren't able to deliver them on their own. Black Box understands that there are a wide range of waste operations and so the product covers the full spectrum, offering modules for landfill management, recycling, recycled product processing and export, environmental services etc so that all modes of waste operation are well catered for.

Bright Core Waste is largely platform independent and can be deployed in a number of configurations. While it is available as a web service, the highest demand is for the java based rich client interface which allows a greater degree of control over the interface by individual users. The rich client interface follows the layout and principles of an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) package, with the ability to switch between spatial and aspatial perspectives. This means that an operations manager or dispatcher may have the real time fleet operations map as their opening interface component, whereas a financial controller may have a real-time operational dashboard depicting financial's (bins collected, total invoicing, total disposal cost, net margin etc) as the primary view. Flexibility like that allows a business system to suit all levels and stages of focus.

To set the system up for use, Black Box performs an information and business logic gathering exercise to install the core system rules. This is an area of great importance for the organisation as the system needs the best framework possible to operate at maximum efficiency. In a typical system preparation the companies chart of accounts is set in first as that governs the primary business components. After that is set the service lines (e.g. wheeliebins, frontloads, gantry's, hook lifts etc) are input with their relevant parameters. The clients and contacts are installed next, as are the sales order and collection components (attached to clients). Assets (including bins, fleet etc) are loaded in and fundamental operational and accounting functions attached. Internal projects are generated to feed in to operations as they progress and all communications and data collection (e.g. fleet tracking) hardware is linked up. Performance analysis criteria, divisional KPI's etc are layered in and the call centre management, sales tracking and point of sale (POS) components are linked up. At this point a working system is created, but there is more to capture yet. While you may have your business rules, such as collection criteria or charting analysis set up, the real operational efficiencies are still to come, and they require a spatial logic that is outside the scope of normal accounts oriented analysis.

Waste companies are intrinsically spatial through their operations as business efficiency comes in the most part from where things happen. Different service lines have different criteria and thus different operational logic - take wheeliebins and hook lift bins as examples. Wheeliebins are variable in volume but a given truck can collect the waste from a large number of them before needing to offload. Hook lift bins on the other hand can only take one bin at a time, so each lift is followed by an offload of some kind. Both service lines then fall into quite different operating frameworks as maximum wheeliebin collection is achieved by optimally routed lifts to known offload points based on weight. Hook lifts need to use an allocation style of logic to achieve similar efficiencies as the logic has to focus on optimum pickup s based on nearest drop off to next pickup allocation. Bright Core Waste has the ability to cope with even the most complex operational logic, so installing the appropriate rules up front is an important phase.

Once in automated scheduling of new customers is straight-forward. When an order is taken from a new collection, the system can allocate it to the truck, run, branch and schedule that meets the maximum efficiency of collection from both an operational and fiscal perspective. Massive gains have been made by waste companies ensuring collection fleets don't double up on travel or overlap each other. With this integrated approach the weight of material for offload is known before the truck hits the weighbridge so the costs of each collection and load are known in real time. Where appropriate hardware is in place the system can be used to minimise missed collections by requiring one button lift verifications. Good business logic will enable the system to operate with great effectiveness by disallowing measures that will contravene the business rules without high level approval, and by using spatial rules directly integrated with business rules

Black box Spatial believes Bright Core Waste to be the most powerful and comprehensive software on the market. Once set up the system can be entirely managed by the company using it, or managed under contract with any deployment option. It is largely platform independent and hardware can be your own or be supplied by Black Box or another third party. Its modular character means you can scale the software to suit any configuration and the product can become very specific to your organisation without losing the support and backup and ability to version upgrade. Take the time to talk to us to understand more as we believe we can show you an unparalleled system that will quickly become a competitive advantage for your operation.Feel free to contact us here.

Keen to see the system in detail?

Our consulting team can take you through Bright Core Waste via a tailored presentation, or take the first step by having having a needs assessment and system specification drawn up. When undertaking this initial engagement, Black Box Spatial helps you mitigate risk by working to clear and specific deliverables. Our commitment to you is to provide return on investment and low cost of ownership so we always start as we intend to continue - delivering the best.