Vehicle Fleet Development and Management

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Vehicle Fleet Development and Management Course
Introduction:
Over 70% of an organization's supply chain expenses may be attributed to transportation-related activities. Therefore, whether an organization's goal is to fulfill employee mobility requirements or to carry out the delivery of goods and materials, it is imperative that it get the transportation function correctly. We will look at the transportation function from a broad perspective in this course. We begin by delineating the prerequisites for fleet maintenance programs and workshops that are successful. Next, we explore various capital budgeting and distribution routing strategies and outline the elements of strict fleet and driver safety procedures. We wrap up with a detailed discussion of the most important fleet performance indicators.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
· State the objectives of fleet management and the role of the fleet manager
· Implement a fleet preventive maintenance program
· Determine requirements for efficient workshops
· Create fleet safety and driver selection programs
· Use capital budgeting techniques to perform vehicle replacement analysis
· Optimize distribution vehicle routes
· Write Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and measure the performance of the fleet
Who Should Attend?
Fleet managers and coordinators, maintenance managers and supervisors, transportation planners, fleet safety managers and operations managers.
Course Outlines:
Introduction to fleet management
- Definition of fleet management
- Objectives of fleet management
- Costs associated with fleet management
- Maximizing customer service
- Fleet manager profile
Fleet maintenance management
- Roles and responsibilities in the maintenance
- Benefits of preventive maintenance inspections
- Scope of preventive maintenance programs
- Unscheduled maintenance
- Road calls
- Tire selection and management
- Parts and supply management
- Vendor versus in-house maintenance
Workshop management
- Workshop layout
- Workshop tools
- Computing workshop productivity
- Facility requirements
- Bay space layout
Fleet safety management
- Elements of a safety program
- Reasons for accident prevention
- Driver selection criteria
- Fleet skill tests
- Road accident types
Vehicle selection and replacement
- Vehicle selection criteria
- Own or contract analysis
- Vehicle replacement analysis
- Capital budgeting techniques
Transportation and distribution planning
- Transportation fundamentals and optimization
- Factors affecting transportation decisions
- Network design options
- Routing of distribution vehicles
Measuring and improving fleet performance
- Fleet measurement system
- Transportation costs
- Cost ratios
- Transportation asset productivity
- Financial and quality indicators
- Cycle time indicators
- Measuring and improving fleet utilization