"Simplified Supply Chain Solutions," Featured in Apeiron Construction Magazine
Apeiron Construction magazine published a nice feature article on Command Alkon in their August issue. Take a deeper dive into how the products and services we provide can transform your daily...
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Hanson Aggregates Achieves a "Double Green" Win with Optimization!
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...
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Lauren Concrete Realizes Reduction in Environmental Impact with Optimization
Several years ago, Lauren Concrete implemented Command Alkon’s COMMANDoptimize engine within its largest market: the Central region that serves the greater Austin area.
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Jeff Van Grootel, Optimization Sales Manager at Command Alkon, joins Enterprise Radio
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.
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Earth Day Celebrates 50th Year
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...
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Optimization Can Greatly Influence Your Carbon Footprint
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...
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How to Make Variable Costs Less…Variable
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...
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In a Constantly Evolving Industry, Businesses Must Reinvent the Way They Make Dispatch Decisions
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..
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"Late Adopter Industry Goes from Good to Great with Transportation Management" Featured on SupplyChainBrain
Dave Donaldson, Business Unit Manager for COMMANDoptimize at Command Alkon, discusses the benefits of transforming transportation logistics through the implementation of a transportation management...
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Command Alkon Features the Real Next Generation of Ready Mix Dispatch at World of Concrete Event Show
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...
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Command Alkon Named Top 10 Fleet Management Solution Provider
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..
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Effective Dispatch and Decision-Making
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...
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Is Your Dispatch Software Leaving You Buried in Paper?
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...
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