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Driving Sustainability Leads to Greater Fleet Efficiency and Reduced Costs

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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Fleet Management Systems (FMS)
Applicable Industries	Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Energy Management System Fleet Management
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The City of Sacramento Department of General Services was committed to having a greener fleet. To achieve this, they needed to establish a baseline of operational metrics to enable them to report on and measure their progress. They also needed to standardize their maintenance practices to improve efficiency. The city decided the first step was to upgrade their technology toolkit. They were using FleetFocus fleet management software from AssetWorks to run the fleet but wanted to upgrade to the newest version to enable advanced features and capabilities such as dashboard and KPI reporting with Crystal reports. Their first priority was to make data-driven decisions. Read More
About Customer	The City of Sacramento has been recognized as one of the most progressive fleets operating today. Their commitment to green technology and efficient fleet management has been a long-term effort that is paying off both in bottom-line savings and emissions reductions. The city has an electric fleet consisting of Chevrolet Volt, Ford Focus Electric, Nissan LEAF, Toyota Prius Plug-In, and Toyota RAV4 EV vehicles. The city also invested in CNG heavy duty vehicles such as asphalt, garbage and sweeper trucks to switch to a sustainable energy source and further reduce greenhouse emissions. Read More
Solution	Once the FleetFocus upgrade was complete, the next initiative they undertook to increase fleet efficiency was to integrate NAPA Auto Parts from Intelligent Business Solutions (IBS) with FleetFocus to improve procurement of parts and eliminate the management of over 100 city P.O.’s. A delivery service was provided to all city shop locations and active communication between IBS and city technicians via FleetFocus was implemented to reduce vehicle down time and waiting on parts. This resulted in fewer deliveries which meant reduced vehicle miles traveled and lowered greenhouse gas emissions. The city also adopted a sustainability plan to implement electric vehicles and were the first public agency to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Workplace Charging Challenge in 2013 which saw 100 charging stations installed in Sacramento. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Functional Applications - Fleet Management Systems (FMS)

Applicable Industries

Cities & Municipalities

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Energy Management System

Fleet Management

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The City of Sacramento Department of General Services was committed to having a greener fleet. To achieve this, they needed to establish a baseline of operational metrics to enable them to report on and measure their progress. They also needed to standardize their maintenance practices to improve efficiency. The city decided the first step was to upgrade their technology toolkit. They were using FleetFocus fleet management software from AssetWorks to run the fleet but wanted to upgrade to the newest version to enable advanced features and capabilities such as dashboard and KPI reporting with Crystal reports. Their first priority was to make data-driven decisions.

About Customer

The City of Sacramento has been recognized as one of the most progressive fleets operating today. Their commitment to green technology and efficient fleet management has been a long-term effort that is paying off both in bottom-line savings and emissions reductions. The city has an electric fleet consisting of Chevrolet Volt, Ford Focus Electric, Nissan LEAF, Toyota Prius Plug-In, and Toyota RAV4 EV vehicles. The city also invested in CNG heavy duty vehicles such as asphalt, garbage and sweeper trucks to switch to a sustainable energy source and further reduce greenhouse emissions.

Solution

Once the FleetFocus upgrade was complete, the next initiative they undertook to increase fleet efficiency was to integrate NAPA Auto Parts from Intelligent Business Solutions (IBS) with FleetFocus to improve procurement of parts and eliminate the management of over 100 city P.O.’s. A delivery service was provided to all city shop locations and active communication between IBS and city technicians via FleetFocus was implemented to reduce vehicle down time and waiting on parts. This resulted in fewer deliveries which meant reduced vehicle miles traveled and lowered greenhouse gas emissions. The city also adopted a sustainability plan to implement electric vehicles and were the first public agency to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Workplace Charging Challenge in 2013 which saw 100 charging stations installed in Sacramento.

Impact #1	Improved procurement of parts and eliminated the management of over 100 city P.O.’s.
Impact #2	Reduced vehicle down time and waiting on parts.
Impact #3	Fewer deliveries which meant reduced vehicle miles traveled and lowered greenhouse gas emissions.

Impact #1

Improved procurement of parts and eliminated the management of over 100 city P.O.’s.

Impact #2

Reduced vehicle down time and waiting on parts.

Impact #3

Fewer deliveries which meant reduced vehicle miles traveled and lowered greenhouse gas emissions.

Benefit #1	Projected cost savings from the FleetFocus/NAPA integration are $1.8 million annually.
Benefit #2	Savings in the areas of purchase order costs, shop productivity, parts costs, rebates, and inventory and vendor management.
Benefit #3	One sweeper truck displaces 24,890 gallons of petroleum and reduces greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions by 39 short tons over 10 years.

Benefit #1

Projected cost savings from the FleetFocus/NAPA integration are $1.8 million annually.

Benefit #2

Savings in the areas of purchase order costs, shop productivity, parts costs, rebates, and inventory and vendor management.

Benefit #3

One sweeper truck displaces 24,890 gallons of petroleum and reduces greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions by 39 short tons over 10 years.

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Driving Sustainability Leads to Greater Fleet Efficiency and Reduced Costs

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