Effective Use Of Gps Fleet Management Solution For Small Organizaions

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Most companies small or large grapple with misuse of their assets. Small organizatons expend a reasonable time in managing this process, cross checking and playing catch with the users. A recenty study on companies that grow from small to medium reflect substantial management and owner time is spent on managing assets and to prevent their misuse. The last thing small companies want to do is be bogged down by the trivials of asset management when they have much larger issues to grapple with which include finance/ increasing sales/ retaining talent/ introducting systems and much more. Growth is not easy and managing it is more difficult.

Vehicle Tracking and Asset Tracking systems can substantially reduce the growth pangs and significant management time. Gardex a tool company out of Jalandhar Punjab implemented the vehicle tracking system in their 5 company vehicles and 3 company generators from itrack gps systems. Prior to implementing the GPS tracking systemGPS tracking system from itrack all records were manual and one person was appointed to track fuel. mileage, ...
... allocating the vehicles, checking on vehicle lcoation, timings of generator were recorded, over time of drivers and a host of other manual procedures were in place. Eventually these manual processes and management engulfed the DNA of the organization. Employees felt that the manual processes never respected them and with constant cross checking and querying there was no sense of belonging leading to attrition and a general poor attitude which no company whatever its size can ill afford to imbibe. Gardex in turn felt that valuable resources had to be monitored and leakages plugged. However the cost to manage and the efficency to manage created its own set of problems. It was a no win situation till they implemented the Vehicle tracking system from itrack.

With as little as a 50,000 RS investment Gardex impemented the automation and GPS tracking system. Initially there was apprehension and in some cases tampering of the units. However the management under their Director Mr Mukul Dutt remained firm that if the organization had to grow the itrack gps system had to be implmented. The first 3 months threw many interesting facts like the vehicles odometers were adjusted by 15% reflected better mileage in the manual system. Overtime by the drivers reduced by 50% and the benefits started to pour in. Within the first 60 days Gardex recuperated their investment with pure saving in fuel and overtime. However the real savings lied elsewhere.

The GPS tracking systemvehicle tracking system by itrack bought about a transparency which was automatically generated . NO employee was questioned and the company had plugged the loop holes. All facts were thrown by the vehicle tracking system. Soon everyone accepted thie tracking system as a part of the new systems just like computer and automatic attendance machines.Suddenly the DNA of the company had changed and the mood within the organization was most postive. Unnecessary questioning and manual records become of the past.Vehicle tracking and asset tracking systems can be easily implemented across small organizations and the start up time to start getting the benefits is less than 24 hours. It is essential that small organization keep using small automations like asset and vehicle tracking to make growth easier.