The technology also allows Speedy to validate employees’ driving licences; and can be integrated with other IT systems across the business.
Commenting on the technology, Mark Woodworth, logistics project manager at the Merseyside-headquartered company, said: ‘Key2 has enabled the implementation of a single system to manage all fleet, driver and journey-related data, vital for ensuring compliance and efficient management of a fleet our size.
‘This will deliver fleet efficiency improvements as well as significant administration benefits that translate into improved productivity and effectiveness as information is at the fingertips of staff. There will also be compliance benefits and that is also important to the company.’
Key2 has replaced a software system that did not provide the flexibility, integration with other IT platforms across the company or ability for fleet suppliers to easily deliver critical vehicle-related information.
‘We now have all information in one location, which improves administration and enables fleet forecasting that in turn improves operational efficiencies,’ Woodworth added.
For example, the ability to record “live” vehicle mileages enables Speedy to better predict defleet mileages. As a result, high mileage vehicles can be relocated and swapped with vehicles that historically clock up less distances.
Key2 has been built for the Microsoft.NET framework enabling Speedy to integrate fleet information with its new cross-company IT platform so the systems “talk” to each other with data, for example employees’ change of address details, updated in real-time.
Key2 is now live with Speedy and current modules used are vehicle management, commercial vehicle management, driver management and driver licence checking. In the future other modules will be introduced to further improve fleet efficiencies including potentially the ability to interpret truck tachograph data.