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Aeromark: Aeromark's Vehicle Tracking Helps N.E. Wholesale Stay On The Road In Today's Tough Business Conditions
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
RDATE:18022009
Bedford -- N.E. Wholesale a trade distributor of tyres and exhausts
continues to extend its successful deployment of Aeromark's Aerotrack
vehicle tracking solution, which delivers visibility of N.E.
Wholesale's 100 plus delivery vehicles improving its customer service
and crucially, in today's harsh economic climate, reducing operating
costs.
N.E. Wholesale, part of North Eastern Tyre and Exhausts, headquartered
in Middlesbroughwith eight depots across North East England, is a well
established customer of the innovative mobile technology company,
Aeromark, which supplies Optimatics, a solution that delivers the next
level of telematics.
"Without a tracking solution we were 'totally blind' as to the
whereabouts of our delivery vehicles. We were unable to accurately
monitor the accountability of our drivers, for example, actual
timespent travelling to and from deliveries and the associated fuel
usage, timespent at a delivery, the amount of overtimebeing carried out
and private use of the vehicles. This lack of visibility made it
difficult for us to monitor our operating costs." explained Ian Darcy,
N.E.Wholesale's Business Development Director.
A key feature in the choice of Aerotrack, a component of Aeromark's
Optimatics solution, by N.E. Wholesale was the flexibility of the
software which enabled Aeromark to customise Aerotrack's functionality
to run tracking reports which exactly met N.E. Wholesale's business
requirements.
"Since deploying Aerotrack, we have instant visibility of the location
of each and every one of our vehicles which has greatly helped us to
meet our Service Level Agreements," explained Darcy. "Additionally, we
now track whether vehicles are taking the most direct routes to and
from deliveries which helps monitor fuel usage, and we are now able to
accurately monitor the productive hours worked by our drivers. We have
also completely eliminated the costs associated with the private use of
vehicles." All of these benefits have helped N.E. Wholesale to reduce
its overall operating costs.
"We did look at other telematics solutions on the market, but Aerotrack
delivered the most cost effective price versus performance," continued
Darcy. "Aeromark has always responded very quickly to our requests for
modifications to the solution as our business requirements change. The
'starter-kill' capability, which allows us to prevent a vehicle being
moved in the event of it being stolen, is a key security feature for
us."
As a long standing customer, N.E. Wholesale regularly liaises with
Aeromark to extend the deployment of Aerotrack as it adds vehicles to
its fleet. The two companies regularly discuss developments to the
solution that will continue to increase the productivity and efficiency
and overall cost effectiveness of N.E. Wholesales' vehicle fleet. The
next phase may well be to expand the Aerotrack solution, so that it
integrates with mobile computers issued to its drivers. This would
allow N.E. Wholesale to deploy a complete end-to-end data capture
mobility solution that would greatly reduce its current paper-based
business processes around job scheduling, proof of delivery and stock
inventory.
"In order for organisations to continue to operate profitably in the
current economic recession, we all need to be looking at ways to work
smarter in order to retain competitive advantage and ensure that we are
delivering the highest possible customer service, at the same time as
reducing operating costs and improving the bottom line," concluded
Darcy. "Aerotrack is playing a big role in helping us to achieve this
today, and I am sure that Aeromark will continue to work with us to
ensure that this is the case for tomorrow."
About N.E. Wholesale
With five distribution warehouses throughout the North of England
nobody reaches their customers faster and more regularly than N.E.
Wholesale. Our service offering is at the forefront of our proposition
and we are very proud to be the first choice for thousands of equity
outlets, franchise dealers and independent tyre dealers.
About Aeromark
Aeromark is a provider of mobile technology and the next level of
telematics, Optimatics. It has recently announced Workflow DynMX, a new
technology that transforms the way in which mobile workforce PDA
applications are designed and deployed. Based on an ASP model, Workflow
DynMX uses Aeromark's new RapidXB technology and its Binary Token
Protocol (BTP), enabling PDA applications to be deployed in half the
time resulting in significant cost reductions when compared with
competitive solutions. Aeromark's Optimatics is a powerful technology
platform specifically designed for companies with field-based staff.
Also based on a simple ASP model with an intelligent interrogation
engine at its core, Optimatics combines complex data feeds from
Aeromark's telematics systems with its own and other third party
solutions to deliver previously unattainable analysed data. Access to
this new data helps organisations to reduce operating costs, optimise
productivity and increase customer service levels. Aeromark's are the
only systems to gain the status of a Branded Solution for Orangeand
Preferred Telematics Partner for Vodafone. Aeromark also offers
end-to-end support to its customers and its systems are warranted for
life.
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