SAN FRANCISCO- The City and County of San Francisco Fleet Management Department has signed a contract with AssetWorks to deploy its FleetFocus fleet management software application.

The Fleet Management Department provides supportive services to over 70 city departments that serve San Francisco's more than 800,000 residents and is fully financed by internal service funds. The department is responsible for the maintenance, fueling services, motor pool, alternative fuel program, and vehicle replacement planning for the combined fleet of approximately 6,000 units. Housed in four locations with 120 employees, the department completes nearly 34,000 work orders annually.

In 2009, the city began a search for a comprehensive citywide fleet-specific management information system to better collect data and track assets, monitor costs and evaluate trends, analyze statistics and generate reports, enable client departments access to database and reports, and facilitate planning, improve efficiencies, and reduce costs.

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With the new software, the city can: obtain management reports on the costs and resources necessary to provide timely and appropriate level of services; calculate charge-back rates for vehicle leasing, maintenance and repair, fueling and other services; manage, process, and invoice customers for work orders; track and audit vehicle assets, repair activities, inventory parts and other cost centers; maintain vehicle historical costs, assignments, usages, activities, status, and other information individually and by type, group and class; manage motor pool vehicles, reservations, dispatches, and billings; plan, schedule, track, and report on preventive maintenance activities; project, plan, and schedule vehicle replacements and budgets; and provide fleet customers with configured access to FleetFocus at city desktop workstations.