Around the world, in today’s information-driven economy, business is changing. Flexibility is winning. Companies that adapt to change rule the day. Technology is also evolving, paving the way for companies to keep up with new and demanding fleet requirements.
The web-based ARI insights® fleet management system, available to ARI’s client base, is built on initiatives critical to our car and truck fleet customers. Our customers depend on our system to supply the latest business intelligence custom-fit for flexibility to their businesses.
They get actionable information fast, so they can make timely, informed decisions that generate new opportunities to save money, build revenue and improve fleet productivity at the lowest cost possible.
Technology bar is higher
Fleet managers — even those handling the most complex car and truck operations—are capitalizing on the advanced technology of ARI insights to transform fleet data into bottom-line business value. The system extends the value of ARI programs through additional productivity gains and cost savings.
ARI insights integrates user-centered methodologies with best practices to provide world-class business intelligence tools that set a new standard for flexibility and simplicity. Among them are dashboards that clients can easily customize, simplified navigation, key performance indicators and alerts, RSS feeds, and company intranets for enhanced web reporting, bulk e-mails and fleet updates.
Our system can track, report and manage detailed vehicle information, including customizable data fields, telematics-driven uploads, vehicle classifications, client-assigned vehicle numbers, inspection dates, remarketing pricing and more.
Streamlining a new client’s transition
ARI clients have full access to the most advanced information technology. ARI value makes it easy to better manage fleet operations and generate business intelligence that sharpens their ability to succeed in the markets they serve. As part of a new client’s start-up activities, we used our web-based ARI insights system to transition its fleet from two other vendors and many decentralized company locations. After decoding and correcting more than 200 serial number errors and more than 600 year-make-and-model data errors, we created and coded a fleet database that eliminated future errors, streamlined the reporting process and met strict internal requirements of the client’s accounting staff. The benefit: using ARI’s web-based system, client locations can now access fleet data directly and manage the vehicles assigned to them, without the danger of taking fleet data off in different directions.
Success above and beyond a client’s goal
Following a series of acquisitions, a cement company fleet expanded to 900 owned and rented vehicles at various sites. ARI was asked for help in setting up a single database to better manage the operation of this decentralized fleet and hard-to-keep-up-with DOT regulations. ARI insights enabled our team to consolidate all fleet information, licensing processes and streamline the workflow at the company’s different locations. Then, in just one working day, we accomplished a transfer of ownership mandated by the closing of the client’s latest acquisition. The company was able to procure new plates and registration without taking one unit off the road. By better managing fleet information and activities, we prevented vehicle downtime, maintained the goodwill of customers and produced client savings of more than $60,000.