How We Helped a Telecommunications Company Integrate Their Fleet Data

Automating your vehicle status and vehicle assignment process could benefit your fleet!

Intro

Let’s look at a telecommunications company with a fleet of over 20,000+ vehicles that was struggling with efficiency within their fleet department and who lacked visibility into the benefits of data utilization. The company had a dedicated team within their fleet department whose sole responsibility was to update vehicle statuses and vehicle assignments. They realized they were in need of a new approach and teamed up with a reliable partner that would present an opportunity to leverage fleet technology integrations and data to automate tasks, which would allow them to redeploy their human resources to work on other fleet-related objectives. This automation of fleet data management and data visibility helped to improve efficiencies within the department, bring to light vehicle replacement cycle, and saved them millions!

Challenge

Upon realizing their system processes were not the most efficient and that it was bleeding into several sectors of their business the telecommunications company decided they needed to streamline their vehicle status and vehicle assignment process. They took Holman’s advice on implementing a data feed that would automatically update the vehicle status and assignments into their personalized fleet data management portal. This relieved the pressure off of a team member having to manually make updates.

They realized they needed more accurate data, better interpretation on how to apply the data, and increased efficiency within their fleet department.

Solution

The telecommunications quickly tackled answering the question, ‘What does a fleet management system do?’ and ‘How can it truly help me?’ by experiencing first-hand its benefits.  By optimizing fleet technology integrations and improving fleet data management- they found that it created notable efficiencies and that they also gained the ability to reassign their internal resources to new positions within the fleet department. Because their data was so much more accurate, they were able to identify underutilized and unassigned vehicles and sold nearly 600 vehicles from their fleet.

The improvement in data feed provided them with more accurate data for vehicle status, and within 3 months of data integration, they saw $1.6M in savings!