The fleet management does support services without funding

Longstay (ull) combines funding from the used car business in a range of services to manage these vehicles on a daily basis. The "fleet management" does support services, without funding. It is therefore only used by companies who prefer to directly purchase their vehicles, but who want to outsource the management.

There are two levels of fleet management. The most widespread and the most basic is a fleet management. It assembles in a package or tailor-made, a range of technical services related to vehicles: relations with garages for maintenance and failures, with the gain and the short rental period for assistance, with insurance brokers, networks for tyre changes... This management is done from technical trays (call centers automotive technicians) equipped with powerful information systems with all of the interventions carried out on all vehicles. These garage in white collar negotiate rates with garages, and they control their benefits and their bills.

Depreciate investment

This basic level of fleet management "represents roughly 300,000 vehicles in France management, and required 90 by long rental duration," said Olivier Rigoni independent consultant. In fact, outside the rental, only Aon Auto, subsidiary of the broker Aon, and Icarus (Europ Assistance) have their own technical plateau. In the rental, the most advanced in this specialty is ALD, which more than a third of the Park is in fleet management. He outstrips Caid-Overlease (25.5 of fleet) and Lease Plan (19.6). "We are the fleet management strategic", explains Jean-François Chanal, Director-General to ALD Automotive, which specifies that volumes brought about by this activity, in addition to the LLD, allow better amortize investment and improve productivity.

Fleet management "administrative" is the second floor of this family of providers. Sometimes called "fleeters", these claimants coordinate, fly, synthesize and control long rental period, the "fleet managers" techniques and other providers (brokers, tankers,...). Their role is comparable to that of the 4PL ("fourth part logistics") in the logistics delivery. This category of actors, widespread in Britain and the Benelux, began drilling in France with Aon (which overlays the two layers of fleet management) and the independents as ERCG (building more vehicles management), who wants to internationalize or Fleet Logistics, already very oriented on multinational fleets. Some rental companies offer themselves this function but, judge and party, they cannot make global reporting, except by being the sole provider of a business.

A work of ants

In practical terms, this category of fleet managers leads a work of ants: assistance in the negotiation and implementation competition of vehicle manufacturers, lessors, tankers, orders for cars by searching for each vehicle rental bidder, management of the formalities of the vehicles, orders cards fuel, relationship management daily with drivers, compliance with the application of the policy of the company fleetcontrol, control CO2 etc and invoices control des, contrôle CO2 etc. et des factures contrôle, contrôle des, contrôle CO2 etc. et des factures contrôle de participations pour usage privé est reporting de synthèse entries for private use is summary reporting (accounting and analytical assignments, payments in, synthetic in overall costs dashboards,says Edouard Rance, Director of ERCG, which has two internal developers.

"It is an outsourcing of functions of a head of business park." We make pure, only of gray matter, by managing the operational daily with drivers and service by providing consolidation of decision-making information. "The head of internal Park does keep that pilotage and arbitrations", summarizes Xavier Bénard, CEO of Aon Auto.

"The objective of many companies is of course to unload more in more managers of parks." "The ultimate situation would be that a rental or a provider meets its business customer only one to two times a year," observed Jérôme Martin, President and CEO of the rental route. "But few companies are going so far, and is considered still need to provide employment to full-time from a fleet of 500 vehicles."