Southern and East African Fleets

Increasingly Southern and East African companies are expanding their business profile and service distribution to meet the expanding needs of their markets. Multinational companies are similarly expanding in Africa to explore new opportunities and to support the growing needs of these African markets.

All participants in these countries require a range of fleet services that support the growing customer service and distribution requirements of these markets and provide opportunities to contain or reduce operating costs.

The financial and operating challenges that businesses face are many and for the multinational companies they are often very different to your home experience. The challenges that you may face are significant, particularly because of the distances covered, operating conditions, road conditions, service support infrastructure such as the scarcity of servicing dealers and limited or unfamiliar vehicle selection options. In combination they have the potential to increase vehicle downtime, increase operating costs and reduce operating efficiency and customer service levels.

Although the challenges are many, there are a number of established fleet management service providers which in combination have the potential to minimise these risks and costs. As an experienced fleet management consultancy business Latitude Fleet Services is able to identify both solutions and service providers that can meet your expanding business needs.

Latitude Fleet Services has experience in African countries and is able to assist in identifying solutions specific to your country and its operating conditions.

Our consulting services include:

• Fleet management strategy development
• Funding methods
• Vehicle standardisation, specification and replacement policy
• Vehicle acquisition and disposal
• Operating cost management – fuel, maintenance and accident management
• Vehicle tracking (telematics) and security
• Fleet management information systems
• Utilisation management
• Fleet policy
• Supply identification and selection

Fuel Management (42% of total costs)

Fuel costs can be reduced

• Through the application of a fuel management policy
• Implementation of consumption benchmarks
• Consumption analysis on a fill by fill basis

Maintenance Management (11% of total costs)

Key Elements to successful Maintenance Management

• Service scheduling
• Database of historical expenditure
• Job cost standards and benchmarks for each vehicle
• Skilled technical evaluators
• Competent and competitive suppliers

Accident Management (10% of total costs)

Key Elements to successful Accident Management

• Skilled technical evaluators
• Cost management
• Repair turnaround times
• Competent and competitive suppliers

Utilisation Management

Key Elements to successful Utilisation Management

• Use tracking (telematics) systems including driver ID tags
• Establish utilisation benchmarks and measure activity
• Manage activity
• Right size you fleet and remove underutilised vehicles