Every company that works with fleet and freight knows the importance of scripting transportation in its management. Planning the distances to be travelled in deliveries and collections, the time and the drivers’ journey and the capacity of the fleet’s vehicles, are some of the elements that must be calculated by the manager, so that he can guarantee constant improvements in the logistics process and the growth of the company, since all of these factors have a direct impact on the results of the logistics operation.
And this optimization is also reflected on two other very important points: the increase in the quality of the services offered to the client and the reduction in the emission of gases into the atmosphere.
The challenge to any manager of large fleets is to make this scripting work perfectly on a large scale, dealing with high volumes of deliveries that require a detailed and thorough planning for optimization of the itinerary. Nowadays, the big companies already have the software technology to automate this scripting and allow a better control of the fleet. But, for the choice of the right software for each company it is necessary to evaluate individually the challenges each company faces, evaluate the problems and the needs, and choose a tool that best serves its specific scenario.
Some scripting applications allow the fleet manager to generate routes for several vehicles and their destinations simultaneously. Others plan routes that have restrictions, estimating the delivery time individually. Some applications also offer the integration of the registration of the drivers’ work schedules with the planning of the routes, optimizing the process even more and reducing unnecessary costs.
As we said before, the benefits that result from this automation of scripting are several, both internal and external. When a company optimizes its transportation operations, it guarantees the deadline compliance, and this is efficiency and quality of the services provided to clients. Considering the company’s social responsibility, which is a condition sine qua non in the current corporate scenario, this optimization reduces the emission of gases into the atmosphere, reducing the carbon footprint of the company on the ozone layer.
FINK is a signatory of the ECOVADIS platform, and rigorously follows the evaluation methodology of Corporate Social Responsibility that evaluates the quality of the responsible management system of a company through its policies, implementation measures and results, performing its fleet management based on the reduction of GHG emission.
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