The audit found that the fleet department's performance metrics needed further development. Additionally, it determined the department had issues with vehicle acquisition and maintenance.
Kevin Devery from Goodyear, Arizona, tells us what fleet metrics he focuses on, how to boost numbers that may be lower than targeted, and what you could be getting wrong.
Exclusive to Samsara clients, the report offers big data insights for fleets to understand how their performance is trending relative to their peers.
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You may think you manage a well-run fleet, but how do you really know unless you have objective data to prove it? When you know your "numbers," you substantially increase the likelihood of successfully presenting the fleet position to the user departments, policy makers, and politicians. In addition, metrics help educate user departments having a financially adverse impact on fleet operations, and bring these inefficient practices to the attention of management in a non-accusatory format.
By capturing and benchmarking metrics, a fleet manager can demonstrate the fleet’s improved performance.
Exemplary fleet managers rise above the level of simply managing day-to-day work and are goal-oriented in all aspects of fleet management. They practice strategic fleet management, which stresses the importance of achieving objectives and the use of metrics to benchmark progress. Metrics analyses will identify inefficiencies and allow you to focus on these specific areas. Whether or not your initiatives are successful in rectifying these inefficiencies will be borne out in subsequent metrics.
How do you prove you are doing a good job? You may think you manage a well-run fleet, but do you have the metrics to substantiate this assertion? If your fleet organization can’t quantify its performance to management and politicians, they, most likely, will not appreciate the value of the services provided. Fleet managers must hold themselves accountable. In fact, fleet managers should embrace increased accountability because it will make you a better fleet manager.
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