Reviewing fleet management softwares - what to look for
Andreas Egger, former fleet manager at Austrian Post, explaines how fleet managers can save money and time thanks to fleet management software and adapt better to new trends and requirements.
If you are working with multiple software solutions that are each good for only one task, you have x different internal experts, x different external contacts, different file formats, you can only search data to a limited extent and not automatically evaluate it. Plus, you can employ several people just with the effort of manual data maintenance for all programs.
Good fleet management software automates processes that are particularly time-consuming. This means that fleet managers finally have the opportunity to think strategically, analyze and plan ahead and also tackle new projects. With good fleet management software, you have the tools you need to make your vehicle fleet more environmentally friendly, to motivate employees, to improve safety and to intelligently integrate new mobility offers in the future. It is therefore worthwhile to compare carefully.
Having data is of no value in itself. Only those who can evaluate and interpret data can benefit from it. This is exactly what you need good software for. Good fleet management software could, for example, automatically forward error messages from the vehicle. Then the fleet manager could schedule a maintenance appointment directly. In this way, damage is repaired quickly before major repairs arise and without major downtimes.