Benefits of cieTrade's Plastic Recycling Software
Lets You Work More Effectively
Organizes Your Plastic Recycling Operation
Integrates With
Your Scales
Increases Material
Traceability
Provides Critical Business Insights
Seamlessly Connects
With Accounting
Dave Hovey, Chief Financial Officer
Key Features of cieTrade's Plastic Recycling Software
Material Grading & Processing
- Supports user-definable plastic attributes including: Melt Index, Grade, Type, Color, Condition and more.
- Allows products to be defined by attribute combination to avoid the use of part numbers.
- Tracks the sources of material (genealogy) by supplier & buyer for quality control, claims and commissions.
- Supports user definable job types and equipment such as slitting, grinding, flaking, extruding and more each with their own internal operating costs.
- Tracks production time, operators, waste and more.
- Capitalizes all production & internal costs into finished goods.
Pricing & Orders
- Handles both spot and contract orders.
- Allows you to establish pricing by account, grade, weight, packaging type, per each and more.
- Supports market and index-formula pricing.
- Automatically updates prices on received loads & shipments.
- Automatically rolls‐over pricing agreements.
- Features “confirmed pricing workflow” to avoid settlements on unconfirmed prices.
- Provides a central dashboard to manage and edit pricing and view pricing history from one place.
- Shows real-time order status, budget to actual analysis, and more.
Dispatch Management
- Manages on-demand, scheduled, one-time and recurring service requests for equipment drop-offs, pickups, switches and more.
- Supports multi-stop pickups, bale routes and municipal stream allocations.
- Generates driver tickets and route sheets.
- Monitors performance to meet service level demands.
- Features optional mobile dispatch app for drivers.
Inventory Control
- Supports both serial (itemized) and bulk inventory models.
- Track material in real-time by warehouse, lot, raw/finished goods and more.
- Custom barcode labels and scanning support improves identification and accuracy of material movements, pack and pick, stock identification and cycle counts.
- Values material with at a landed cost, capitalizing freight, storage & processing costs.
Logistics Management
- Built-in workflow features help organize open tickets, ungraded and unpriced loads, in-process shipments, approvals, logistics notifications and more.
- Quickly find shipments by any reference including order, pickup, truck and invoice number, bill of lading, carrier, and more.
- Document Event tracking helps you stay on top of shipping requirements and notifications.
- Universal search engine makes it easy to retrieve attached documents and photos from anywhere in the system.
Reporting
- Shows the projected profitability of every plastic shipment.
- Generates all of the specialized reports you need to manage daily activity and business performance.
- Advanced reports include: gross profit by customer, supplier, product and more, tonnage and pricing trends, order matching and fulfillment, settlement statements, commissions and more.
- Integrated Self-Service Portal provides your customers and recycling partners with on-demand access and visibility to recovered material, shipments, pricing, payments, documents and more.
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See what other plastic recyclers have to say about cieTrade
As a rapidly growing plastics recycling business, AP&J Recycling needed an industry-specific solution to be able to manage their operation. Learn how cieTrade helped eliminate manual spreadsheets, improve inventory tracking and increase accuracy of COGS.
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ciePhoto
ciePhoto replaces your existing digital camera and allows users to take photos of outbound export containers or to document quality issues on received loads.
FAQ
Yes, cieTrade offers direct integration with floor, truck, and forklift scales to pull scaled material weights directly into the system. Users can also link multiple scales to device running cieTrade, and select which scale they want to read from. This feature only works with scales that have an IP Address.
Yes, cieTrade’s unique design makes it fast and easy to record and attach container and material photos, external documents, and more to all of your orders and tickets. cieTrade also supports IP camera integration so you can easily record received material quality at your warehouse.
Yes, cieTrade’s plastic recycling software offers direct integration with barcode scanners and label printers that support Bluetooth compatability.
Yes, cieTrade’s material converting or processing jobs that track a waste grade line item between input and output materials.
cieTrade currently supports four inventory tracking models including: serial, bulk-perpetual, bulk non-perpetual, and do-not-track. Workflows that use multiple products of a different inventory model used collectively are supported.
As you receive material, cieTrade calculates COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) based on the purchase price of the material, plus any expenses added on the Receiving Ticket. Once material is processed, the COGS is based on any cost increase of the output, plus any expenses added.
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