Today, every company or business unit has its own operational elements, for which it requires dedicating a big amount of time, lots of energy and fully coordinated logistics. In addition, a few business groups require fully coordinated vehicle operations to stay successful and achieve huge amounts of profit from the market.

Especially, companies involved in product delivery, transportation, freight, courier and other related type of operations use multiple number of transport vehicles. In this situation, businesses will get benefit a lot from innovative fleet management solutions.

Why Fleet Management is Essential for Transportation/Logistics Industry

Fleet management is an important part of the entire transportation/logistics industry. We know that the entire logistics and transportation companies accomplish their tasks and make money via flow of goods to the required destination.

Any glitch in the mentioned flow results in disruption of the entire work and thereby, results in dissatisfaction among clients. The main objective behind fleet management solutions is to boost the quality of services delivered by any transportation or freight company and to develop efficiencies to assure about effective services.

Round-the-Clock and Live Monitoring of Vehicles

Mobile-based logistic solutions help users to monitor the vehicle movements live and on a round-the-clock basis. This step not only checks any unethical activity, but also keeps users (businesses) fully updated with the exact time, at which any vehicle moves out from the warehouse and delivery progress during the entire journey.

In this way, fleet management solutions provide you with live linked data with exact number of hours travelled by any transportation vehicle and numbers of hours it remains at rest. When you get better understanding and exact location of your fleet vehicle, you may judge the time left on the job and thereby, introduce any additional project and job for both existing and new vehicle drivers. Moreover, a logistic manager may use the report to get an improved estimation on delivery time to a specific place.

Automated Vehicle Maintenance to Boost Lifespan

Fleet management mobile app solutions provide automated vehicle maintenance solutions. This factor eventually boosts the vehicles’ lifespan, as eliminates various tedious jobs to track the last time, at which you have taken the vehicle in a garage. Instead, you only have to enter details in the mentioned details in the fleet management system, while get notifications on a regular basis. Moreover, you may opt to get automated report generation and save the valuable time of your organizational employees. In this way, you will expect to boost productivity further.

Automated Alert System

Fleet management solutions come with automated alert system to create automated alerts about assigned job and shift timing of various logistics staffs. The alert system thus surpasses late reporting and any other related loophole present in the business. Furthermore, improved punctuality in the service will allow you to relish actual working hours in a subsequent manner.

Improved Safety Habits

Fleet management systems linked to fleet vehicles provide improved safety habits. The software report remains linked with the driving habits, patterns and behaviors of specific fleet vehicle drivers. Because of this, you may assure to make effective transport plans, identify any dangerous activity/behavior of a driver and reduce accidents. In this way, your company will boost the profit margins and retain reputation in the freight industry.

Boosts Fuel Efficiency of Vehicles

As mentioned earlier, fleet management services help any fleet manager to analyze behavior of vehicle drivers. In this way, it also tracks idle time of a particular vehicle and refueling receipts to provide detailed information about driving conditions and fueling habits followed by the driver. When the company gets adequate information about refueling, it makes the necessary amendments according to relevant data than decisions based on merely guesswork and theory.

Provides Reliable, Customized and Quick Reports

Fleet management solutions provide users with quick and reliable reports for the entire day, which they can access from any place or at any time. Even the system delivers customized reports, like weekly, hourly or daily reports, in accordance with the criteria you require to fulfill. Thus, by understanding your vehicular fleet habits, you may opt make the necessary adjustment as per the analyzed report to improve report management and accountability of your fleet. Besides this, fleet management tracks your business’ growth rate to allow you taking better decisions in the coming months or days.

Gateway to Improve Customer Satisfaction and Service

Fleet management system intends to bring improvement in the delivery time and reducing waiting time for its customers. Thus, you may provide a highly efficient yet effective service to global clients, irrespective of your business operations. Whenever your customers receive top quality of service, they intend to remain highly loyal to the company and approach you to avail of further services.

Therefore, fleet management system is an excellent way to bring improvement in the overall effectiveness of the business.

Author Bio

George Stafford is the general sales manager working at Autofacets, a complete Automotive IT solutions provider company. He has Good experience in automotive market analysis and product management.