Fleet Consultancy
The Importance of Effective Fleet Management
The importance of effective fleet management is gradually gaining awareness among humanitarian organizations. Some often overlooked facts about the operation are:
- Fleet management is a complicated task involving many skills
- Fleet management and operations play a vital role in delivering services and reaching beneficiaries in a consistent reliable and safe manner.
- Fleet operation is a major cost centre of most organizations
Kjaer Group has over the last years developed a range of serivces and tools to effectively support and assist organizations operating in often challenging environment of sub-Saharan Africa, enabling them to enhance focus on core activities.
Fleet Assessment
Kjaer Group's Fleet Lifecycle Management research metholodgy is designed to provide a holistic 360° view of the lifecycle of a vehicle fleet. Broadly the research proccess is organized into three major categories: Fleet Diagnostic Survey, Interview/Data collection and Analysis/Final report.
Fleet Management Strategy
A strategy should support and secure fleet management's capability to provide a means of transportatin that is:
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Based on experiences causes are often deeply rooted in the organization and requires more than a quick fix. Some typical improvement areas are funding structures, inefficient vehicle pooling, empowerment and lifecycle management, which will be identified in a Fleet Assessment.
Kjaer Group can assist in defining a strategy and a plan of action reflecting the positive triple bottom line; safety, environment and cost.
Fleet Performance
Kjaer Goup is able to deliver periodic Fleet Performance Reports on key objectives, fleet/vehicle costs and life cycle management to support the formulated strategy. It is vital to keep focus on key objectives and to ensure the organization remains on the right track.
Fleet Safety Strategy
Fleet Safety is a gap analysis of the organization's safety performance followed by an action plan bringing the organization to the desired safety level. The consequences of not knowing ones liabilities and managing these translate into significant concequences of which the most serious ones are loss of lives, soaring costs, program setback, lawsuits and loss of image.
A comprehensive safety analysis deals with the organization's safety management systems, risk assessment procedures, driver management, vehicle management, journey and incident management and performance monitoring.
Recourses
Below are links to some of the articles available from the extensive Kjaer Group Article Archive. Please click on Article Achive to view all articles divided into different categories.
- Observations on Fleet Operation in Harsh and Hostile Environments
- Accountable Fleet Management
- Information, Information and More Information
- The Road to Success
- Linking Hands Across Oceans
Contact
For customized advice, please do contact us.