Sale, Manchester. The live CO2 profile of a fleet can now be seen online thanks to an enhanced version of GE Capital Solutions, Fleet Services’ award winning iManage fleet management tool.
Winner of 2007 Best Digital Initiative, the new version of iManage - which has been adopted by over 50% of GE Fleet Services UK fleets since its launch - also allows fleets to be looked at in terms of their insurance groupings, NCAP ratings and driver age bands.
Rich Green, managing director at GE Fleet Services, said: "iManage has quickly established itself as a core management tool for many of our major fleet customers.
"It integrates information from 11 different countries in eight languages, allowing users to access management reports either consolidated across Europe or by country in minutes; an exercise which previously would have taken weeks to compile.
"These latest enhancements to iManage have been made in response to customer requests. The environment and risk management issues remain at the top of the fleet agenda, and we are now able to provide relevant and current information online."
The new features to the product also includes the ability to look at drivers who are performing best and worst in terms of spend, maintenance costs to be examined by supplier, and rentals to be examined by vehicle category.
iManage presents key information about the cost and operational performance of a fleet in the form of a dashboard, allowing managers to quickly identify specific problems and take appropriate actions. With three clicks of the mouse, for example, the user can move from a wide-ranging fleet overview to individual vehicle and driver data.
The dashboard information can be measured over the last one, two or three years, and the user can set target costs and inventory numbers with upper and lower control limits to enable him or her to see if their fleet is operating efficiently.
Different access priorities can be defined within the application for different types of user, so fleet managers, HR managers, purchasing managers and financial managers can all see information that meets the needs of their particular department.
iManage requires no installation of software and can be accessed through any web browser with a simple user name and password security check. All data can also be exported into Microsoft Excel.
In addition to iManage, Online Key also features iQuote, an online quotation and ordering module for fleet managers and drivers, and iReport, online contract management query and reporting module.
Company Information
GE Commercial Finance Fleet Services, with more than 1.25 million vehicles worldwide is a leading global car leasing and fleet management company, with operations in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. GE Fleet Services' European businesses with 250.000 cars are located in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
With over US$191 billion in assets, GE Commercial Finance, headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, offers businesses around the globe an array of financial services and products.
GE (NYSE: GE) is a diversified technology, media and financial services company dedicated to creating products that make life better. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, television programming, and plastics, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs more than 300,000 people worldwide.
In the UK, GE Commercial Finance Fleet Services has a fleet of 68,000 vehicles and is based at head offices in Sale, near Manchester, where 250 people are employed.
www.gefleetservices.com
