WHY partners should consider Waste Management
The waste management industry generates over $140 billion in annual revenue in the USA alone, making it one of the most stable and essential service sectors in the economy. With consistent demand across municipalities, commercial enterprises, and industrial operations, it offers a resilient revenue base and long-term growth potential.
Waste collection, Recycling and Waste Disposal and Incineration form the three core pillars of the waste management industry:
- Waste Collection companies are the frontline operators of the industry. They utilize specialized fleets of vehicles and containers to efficiently and profitably collect and dispose waste on an industrial scale.
- Waste Recycling companies specialize in extracting valuable secondary raw from waste streams. Common examples include ferrous and non-ferrous metals, plastics, paper, cardboard and glass, which are traded on global resource markets.
- Waste Disposal offers end-of-line services and handles the ultimate disposal of waste - primarily via Landfill or Incineration
What makes the waste management sector as a whole attractive for ERP partners is its operational complexity. From fleet and asset management to billing, procurement, and customer service, waste management organizations rely on tightly integrated systems to maintain efficiency and profitability. Yet many still operate with fragmented or outdated tools - creating a clear opportunity for digital transformation.
For ERP implementation partners with the right industry solution and support, this is a high-value vertical with strong fundamentals, recurring revenue models, and increasing openness to modernization. It’s a space where operational excellence directly translates into financial performance, making it a strategic fit for partners looking to expand into a mission-critical, infrastructure-heavy domain.
WHY do partners benefit from an ISV solution
To understand why the industry needs a strong vertial solution, we need to understand the fundamental business model of waste management. Different to manufacturing organizations, the business model of waste management is reversed. Companies generate revenue by collection goods and selling secondary raw materials to the market. They incur and incur cost for shipping (i.e. disposing) goods at third parties.
ERP solutions are typically built for manufacturing organizations and do not supportreverse logistics organizations. This can lead to costly customizations, complex and slow processes, and low satisfaction - all of which negatively impact an organization and the partners success.
To address this need, COSMO Consult has developed COSMO Environmental Services, an industry vertical solution specifically designed for the needs of the waste management industry.
WHY COSMO Environmental Services is the perfect fit for you
COSMO Environmental Services combines more than 20 years of industry experience into one coherent solution - built on Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supplychain management, Microsoft's most advanced ERP product. Today, COSMO Environmental Services is the leading solution for waste management, recycling and reverse logistics for Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management.
COSMO Environmental Services is an end-to-end solution that covers all aspects of the waste management industry. This section contains an overview of some of the key modules of COSMO Environmental Services:
Business partner management extends Microsoft Dynamics to provide companies in waste management with a streamlined interface to maintain all their business relations - across customers and vendors.
Contract management allows your customers to maintain their operational waste collection and disposal agreements with ease. Set up collection addresses, define materials, services, and containers, and define agreed collection schedules.
Work order management brings operational waste collection and disposal processes to Microsoft Dynamics 365. Whether you need to collect hazardous or non-hazardous waste from business partners, dispose waste at third party locations or buy and sell recyclables - the work order management is the right tool for the job. And with it's flexible framework architecture, you can adapt the work order management easily to your customers business needs.
Containers and other mobile assets are an important part of every waste management operation. With the built-in Container management in COSMO Environmental Services, partners can help their customers keep track of their mobile assets - no matter the size.
Waste management companies utilize fleets of specialized vehicles and trucks to provide their services. The built-in Transport planning module of COSMO Environmental Services offers an entry-level solution for waste management companies - offering short-term and long-term transport planning right in Dynamics 365.
While Dynamics 365 contains a powerful production module, companies in Waste management often require a more flexible or cost-effective solution. The Recycling order simplifies Dynamics 365's production capabilities and allows companies to easily capture the results of recycling and sorting operations.
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