Outsourcing

In the past, fleet outsourcing used to be an assessment performed by the persons responsible for transport management. This assessment was made based on budgetary values of one's own fleet, instead of considering outsourced fleet proposals.

These paradigms have been changing. Companies from all sectors have constantly pursued cost reductions, quality improvement and productivity increase of their businesses. They have found in fleet outsourcing an opportunity to add these values.

However, old paradigms often discourage companies to a good assessment, since in many cases the companies do not see the subject as an strategic issue, consequently not considering the impacts on the cash, indicators, personnel, budget, etc. By comparing different things, they forget about some hidden costs when talking about fleet outsourcing.

Usually, companies compare the existing budget with the outsourcing proposal. They do not include other financial considerations, such as capital costs, fleet demobilization and even a reduction on bureaucracy, fleet idleness, productivity gains, risks, among other less tangible elements.

Outsourcing a fleet with a fleet management specialist is simpler than it seems. What the specialized company needs for an assessment are the data on the fleet and the characteristics of the operation. From that point, a menu of services will be presented and the contracting company will decide which services must be listed in the proposals.

The type of services that contracting companies will choose will define the values agreed, terms and conditions, such as tire changes, preventive and corrective maintenance, vehicle protection, reserve fleet, etc.

After this previous alignment, the entire strategic part will remain with the contracting company and the entire bureaucratic and operational part will remain with the specialist company. Performance indicators are aligned, periodic meetings are scheduled and the partnership is then established.

As a rule, fleet outsourcing brings countless benefits to the companies, as it demobilizes resources for investments, reduces taxes, bureaucracy, operational risks and wastes, in addition to significantly reducing the idleness of your fleet. Not to mention the fact that it significantly increases the quality of your businesses, improves the image of your company, in addition to significantly improving the organizational environment.

Fleet outsourcing is an avant-garde way togenerate value to your business. As a rule, the projects bring significant changes, as they reduce internal purchase bureaucracy, as well as accounting, financial and operational bureaucracies, in addition to improving the organizational environment. Most of all, it generates financial value, since the values invested in the fleet are demobilized and re-invested in the business itself.

The changes in companies are significant with the outsourcing of fleets. With outsourcing, the cash flow becomes stable, since payments for the service are constant; there is a significant reduction in internal bureaucracy, due to reductions in quotations to purchase own fleet items; there is a reduction in the accounting bureaucracy, as the payment that used to be previously made for several items of the fleet is now included in the monthly sum; there is also a change in budgets, in the indicators and in the EBITDA; fleet idleness is drastically reduced and with it comes an increase in productivity.