Establishing a Cost Effective Fleet Replacement （建立一个成本有效的替代）.pdfVIP

Establishing a Cost Effective Fleet Replacement Program Regardless of what purpose your company’s fleet serves, there are cer- tain fundamentals to keep in mind when designing and implementing a cost-effective vehicle replacement program. By Sal Bibona of the major phases of the lifecy- ters. Whether your company’s fleet is cle of their vehicles. These Fortunately, with modern fleet serving as a means of transporta- phases, illustrated in Chart 1, information technology, obtain- tion for the sales and service staff begin with evaluating the need ing this information should not or is providing a mobile work for the vehicle and culminate be too difficult. Maintenance platform, all fleet decision- with remarketing, disposing, or management information sys- makers will be in a better posi- reassigning the vehicle. tems, work force management tion to develop cost-effective Too often organizations give systems, automated fuel systems, replacement programs if they little consideration during the and external point-of-sale fuel consider the following funda- replacement planning process to transactions can automate much mentals. whether a replacement vehicle is of the data collection process. needed or not. When vehicles are Similarly, best practice fleets Take a Comprehensive due for replacement, manage- have standards in place to guide Approach ment should ask the following the specification of the fleet A comprehensive approach questions: units. These are particularly when developing a cost-effective • Is the vehicle being f