COMMANDoptimize

Lehigh Hanson, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of construction materials in North America, operates a number of ready mixed concrete businesses using the Hanson Aggregates brand. In the...

Several years ago, Lauren Concrete implemented Command Alkon’s COMMANDoptimize engine within its largest market: the Central region that serves the greater Austin area.

In this podcast, Jeff Van Grootel discusses COMMANDoptimize, which helps dispatchers in the ready mix and concrete world make decisions that best utilizes their assets and resources.

The construction industry has been focusing on greener practices to create structures that are environmentally responsible and more sustainable. The construction industry requires heavy machinery...

Command Alkon, the Leading Supplier Collaboration Platform for Construction’s Heavy Work, has recently won the 2019 Supply & Demand Chain Executive Green Supply Chain Award. Command Alkon was...

How can you manage your variable costs as effectively as you do your fixed costs?  Ready mix concrete producers spend a significant amount of time evaluating their needs for fixed assets...

Consider just some of the variables that come into play to make a single dispatch decision: driver call-in requirements, plant availability and loading speeds, mix costs, customer pouring rates..

Dave Donaldson, Business Unit Manager for COMMANDoptimize at Command Alkon, discusses the benefits of transforming transportation logistics through the implementation of a transportation management...

Command Alkon is pleased to feature their dispatch and logistics optimization engine at World of Concrete, COMMANDoptimize. COMMANDoptimize is a powerful algorithmic engine that augments human...

Command Alkon has been named a Top 10 Fleet Management Solution Provider by Logistics Tech Outlook magazine. Software and technology providers were judged on their ability to provide solutions that..

Lauren Concrete was Founded in 1986 by Ronnie Klatt and continues to be a family-owned and operated company. Lauren Concrete and its sister company, Texas Aggregates, service a 300-mile area...

There are many areas that are ripe for improvement at most ready-mix operations, many of which are directly impacted by the quality, timeliness, and consistency of dispatch decision making...

Most early dispatch software only automated front-end resource management processes. All the daily back-office work–from billing to identifying and dealing with exceptions to document management...

Ready-Mixed Concrete producers strive for good truck utilization. Maximum truck utilization generally equals a higher profit, right? While that may be true, providing adequate, but not necessarily...