How Vehicle Tracking Can Help HR & Finance Departments
Vehicle tracking can help every part of your workforce to streamline its operations and to work more efficiently and productively. The following explains its various functions and how it can help those working in human resources and finance departments
Human Resources
The human resources department is a vital part of any organisation and is responsible for effectively managing the people who make a company tick. Vehicle tracking can life easier for staff in a number of ways:
Ensuring company and driver compliance with all necessary legislation – Vehicle tracking allows your company to comply with health and safety and duty of care guidelines. For example, you can ensure that your drivers don't break the working time directive by setting up alerts which will tell them when they need to stop and take a break.
Maximising driver performance – Vehicle tracking allows HR to monitor how effectively your drivers are performing and how productive they are at work. This will allow them to successfully carry out employee appraisals.
Preventing accidents – Vehicle tracking allows your business to monitor driver speed and breaking habits, which will allow you to identify regular offenders and implement the necessary disciplinary procedures or extra training required, in order to prevent accidents.
Improving fuel economy – By monitoring fuel consumption, driver location and driving habits, you can help to manage your fleet more cost-effectively.
Restricting unauthorised journeys - Using driver ID and real-time vehicle updates, HR can check exactly where their vehicles are and who is driving them. This can not only ensure that businesses save money by preventing un-authorised journeys, but also help them to meet legal responsibilities too.
Finance
For the number crunchers, vehicle tracking has a number of useful applications which will help to make organisations more efficient and profitable. These are as follows:
Improve fuel efficiency – With the cost of fuel continuing to rise, finance directors will be glad to know that vehicle tracking has a number of features which help to improve fuel efficiency. Among these are driver behaviour and real-time vehicle monitoring, which can help to reduce speeding and create more efficient vehicle routing. This will also help to significantly reduce fuel consumption. Recent research by the Institute of Transport Management has indicated that vehicle tracking can reduce fuel bills by as much as 14%.
Eliminate expense fraud – Vehicle tracking means that missing petrol receipts and fraudulent mileage claims, which previously cost companies millions, are now a thing of the past.
Improve productivity – By knowing exactly where every vehicle in your fleet is, you can send the nearest vehicle to a job, saving both time and money.
Restrict unauthorised journeys – With vehicle tracking, costly unauthorised journeys are a thing of the past as you will know exactly where your drivers and their vehicles are at all times.
Immediate ROI – The outlay of vehicle tracking can be quickly justified as many companies will see an immediate return on investment following its implementation.
