ABSSolute provides an integrated system for container tracking, billing, and loading with its ‘Container Recording’, ‘Container Billing’, ‘Truck Load Assistant’ and ‘Route Assistant’ features. Together, these tools enhance visibility, accountability, and operational efficiency for laundries managing reusable containers.
The Container Recording feature enables real-time inventory control by linking containers to deliveries or delivery notes through barcode or RFID scanning or manual entry. It tracks when a container is sent to a customer, the route taken, and the driver responsible for the delivery. Introduce the Truck Load Assistant to enhance operational efficiency by ensuring that the correct containers and delivery notes are loaded onto the right vehicle. Designed for dispatch teams, it operates through a mobile device with a Bluetooth-linked scanner. This app allows users to scan each container as its loaded verifying load accuracy. It prevents misloads and missing containers by providing early warnings when truck capacity limits are reached and performing completeness checks. Additionally, it updates route status control overview in real time, ensuring a streamlined loading process. The Truck Load Assistant eliminates paper-based instructions, provides deadline visibility, and allows loading to be handled by staff other than the drivers, improving flexibility and efficiency.
When combined with the Route Assistant, additional timestamps for delivery and pickup are recorded, ensuring precise tracking. Once scanned back into the laundry, ABSSolute updates its status from “at the customer” to “in the laundry.” Containers can also be assigned to specific customers, ensuring they are used correctly. The system provides reports on the number of containers at each customer’s location, the duration of their stay, and the average retention period. A full track-and-trace history is available for each container, along with optional disinfection scans for hygiene control.
To further optimize container management, the Container Billing feature introduces automated charges to encourage proper use and timely returns. By addressing issues like container shortages, damage, and high reinvestment costs, this feature helps laundries reduce losses and improve accountability. It allows for rental fees based on time spent on-site, delivery costs for containers and boxes, and additional charges when customers exceed their allocated container quantity. Customers may also receive credits for returning containers promptly. When used with the Route Assistant, Container Billing ensures full traceability by recording precise delivery and pickup timestamps. This structured approach to container management prevents waste, improves cost efficiency, and can even create a new revenue stream by billing customers who use containers for storage or relocation.
By integrating Container Recording, Container Billing, Route Assistant, and Truck Load Assistant, ABSSolute delivers a seamless and fully optimized container management solution. This comprehensive approach enables laundries to track, bill, and manage containers with accuracy, reducing losses, streamlining logistics, and improving overall operational control.
