Software Platform
BellHawk and MilramX Create a Connected Recycling Workflow
BellHawk captures operational activity as work happens, while MilramX connects that data with ERP systems, suppliers, customers, and management reporting.
Capture
Use barcode scanning, RFID, and mobile devices to capture material, process, inventory, quality, and shipment activity.
Control
Use MilramX to exchange data with ERP, accounting, purchasing, supplier, customer, and shipping systems.
Connect
Use MilramX to exchange data with ERP, accounting, purchasing, supplier, customer, and shipping systems.
Use Case
Use Case: Multi-Plant Recycling Visibility with BellHawk and QuickBooks Integration
After the 2008 downturn, two brothers took over their family’s recycling business and quickly realized they needed better visibility into daily plant operations. As the company managed activity across multiple facilities, paper records and disconnected systems made it difficult to track materials, processing activity, inventory movement, and outbound shipments with confidence.
KnarrTek implemented BellHawk with a custom QuickBooks interface to give the company a more connected way to manage operations. With BellHawk, their team can track incoming recyclable materials, material movement, processing steps, inventory status, finished recycled materials, and shipments across multiple plant locations.
The custom QuickBooks interface helps keep operational data aligned with accounting and business management workflows. This reduces duplicate data entry, improves reporting accuracy, and gives managers a clearer connection between what is happening on the plant floor and what is reflected in QuickBooks.
By combining BellHawk’s real-time tracking capabilities with QuickBooks integration, the recycling business gained better visibility into plant activity, material status, inventory availability, and shipment progress. Instead of relying on delayed paperwork or disconnected spreadsheets, the team can make faster, more informed decisions across its recycling operations.
BellHawk Software
BellHawk for Recycling Operations
BellHawk is a Manufacturing Execution System and Warehouse Management System designed to support real-time material tracking, processing visibility, inventory control, traceability, quality management, and warehouse operations.
Material Tracking
Track recyclable materials, processed materials, finished products, containers, pallets, and shipments by item, lot, serial number, location, quantity, grade, and status.
Process Tracking
Monitor sorting, shredding, cleaning, reprocessing, baling, packaging, and transfer activity in real time to improve operational visibility.
Quality Control
Capture inspection results, contamination checks, grade changes, approvals, rejects, and quality notes to support environmental and customer requirements.
Inventory Management
Streamline receiving, put-away, storage, picking, packing, labeling, and shipping of recyclable and recycled materials with real-time inventory updates.
Cost Tracking
Capture labor, equipment, material, processing, handling, and movement costs for improved reporting, costing, and ERP integration.
Real-Time Reporting
Give managers visibility into materials received, materials processed, inventory availability, quality exceptions, compliance records, and shipments.
Industry Applications
Applications of BellHawk in Recycling
BellHawk supports a variety of recycling applications, helping recyclers improve traceability, inventory accuracy, processing control, quality visibility, and distribution management.
Plastic Recycling and Reprocessing
Track plastic material receipt, grades, lots, sorting, shredding, washing, pelletizing, finished inventory, and shipments.
Metal Scrap Sorting and Processing
Monitor scrap receipt, grading, sorting, processing, inventory locations, weight-based movement, quality checks, and shipments.
Paper and Cardboard Recycling
Track bales, lots, grades, storage locations, processing activity, inventory movement, customer orders, and distribution.
Electronic Waste Recycling
Track received electronics, components, serialized items, disassembly activity, quality checks, compliance records, and downstream shipments.
Specialized and Regulated Waste Workflows
Support tracking, labeling, documentation, inventory movement, quality checks, and compliance visibility for specialized recycling or waste-handling workflows, including medical waste, chemical waste, regulated materials, and other materials requiring stricter traceability controls.
Multi-Site Recycling Operations
Connect multiple facilities, warehouses, processing locations, and distribution centers with centralized material and inventory visibility.
Process Tracking
Streamlined Recycling Workflow with BellHawk
BellHawk helps recycling operations create a more accurate workflow from material receipt through processing, inventory, and shipment.
Track material receipt, supplier information, material grade, lot number, weight, quantity, location, and status.
Monitor sorting, shredding, cleaning, reprocessing, baling, packaging, and other recycling process steps.
Capture quality checks, contamination results, grade updates, approvals, rejects, and compliance records.
Manage inventory movement, storage locations, put-away activity, and real-time material availability.
Support picking, packing, labeling, staging, and shipping of recycled materials.
Integrate processing, inventory, shipment, and traceability data with ERP, accounting, supplier, and customer systems.
ERP Integration
MilramX for Recyclers
MilramX enhances recycling supply chain integration by automating data exchange with ERP systems, suppliers, customers, and management platforms.
For recyclers, MilramX helps connect BellHawk with systems that manage purchase orders, receiving records, processing activity, inventory balances, compliance documentation, sales orders, shipment notices, and accounting transactions.
This helps managers reduce duplicate data entry, monitor exceptions, support environmental compliance, and keep operational information aligned across the business.
MilramX Capabilities
ERP Integration: Exchange inventory, processing, purchasing, shipment, and traceability data for streamlined reporting.
Supply Chain Coordination: Automate purchase orders, shipment notices, supplier updates, customer records, and exception alerts.
Traceability Sharing: Share material traceability data with supply chain partners, customers, and management teams.
Automated Monitoring: Detect missing data, delayed updates, inventory mismatches, and processing exceptions before they become larger problems.
Business Impact
Benefits of KnarrTek Recycling Industry Software
The combination of BellHawk and MilramX helps recycling businesses improve real-time tracking, traceability, environmental compliance, inventory accuracy, and supply chain visibility.
Regulatory Compliance
Support environmental compliance with automated tracking, material history, quality records, and traceability data tied to recycling workflows.
Operational Efficiency
Reduce manual entry, improve workflow speed, capture real-time updates, and limit errors across receiving, processing, inventory, and shipping.
Sustainability Accountability
Improve material traceability and reporting so teams can better demonstrate recycling accountability and supply chain responsibility.
Inventory Accuracy
Track recyclable materials, processed materials, finished goods, bales, bins, containers, pallets, and locations in real time.
Quality Visibility
Capture contamination checks, grading updates, quality inspections, approvals, rejects, and material status changes in the same workflow.
Supply Chain Integration
Use MilramX to help connect operational data with ERP systems, suppliers, customers, shipping workflows, and reporting platforms.
Manual vs. Connected
Manual Recycling Tracking vs. KnarrTek Real-Time Tracking
Real-time recycling operations software helps teams reduce errors, improve visibility, and make better decisions across material processing and distribution.
Why KnarrTek
Why Choose KnarrTek for Recyclers?
KnarrTek’s BellHawk and MilramX solutions provide scalable, cost-effective tools for recycling businesses that need stronger material visibility, inventory control, environmental compliance, and supply chain integration.
BellHawk helps teams capture accurate operational data as work happens. MilramX helps connect that data with ERP systems, suppliers, customers, and management platforms so recyclers can reduce manual entry, improve reporting, and respond faster to exceptions.
Together, BellHawk and MilramX help recycling operations improve efficiency, traceability, accountability, and sustainability from material receipt through processing, inventory, and shipment.
Workflow Fit
Built for Real Recycling Operations
Recycling workflows are often complex because incoming materials vary by supplier, material stream, grade, weight, condition, contamination level, processing requirement, customer demand, and compliance requirement.
KnarrTek helps recyclers create a structured tracking process that supports receiving, sorting, processing, quality control, inventory movement, labeling, distribution, environmental compliance, and ERP integration without forcing teams into a one-size-fits-all workflow.
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KnarrTek's Capabilities
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Inventory & Asset Tracking
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RFID Inventory System
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Track & Trace Materials
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Materials Flow & Job Tracking
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