When it comes to courier services, experts in the field recommend a combination of ERP management and fleet management to capitalize an organization’s time and monetary investments. The main function is to minimize delays and accelerate time to completion by cutting down on multitasking. With so many tasks to consider from planning to costing, manufacturing, servicing, marketing and sales, inventory management and shipping and payment, it makes perfect sense that a mixture of ERP and fleet management would be the go to solution for thousands of existing courier businesses.
Often the responsibility falls to IT managers when it comes to planning and deployment of this type of managerial system implementation to make sure the connection to real-time data and transaction data is two-fold. The first one is via direct integration. But, at ERP:FM we already have existing solutions that can be customized so that your roll out time can be speedier.
The second is via database integration and in this instance, the system connects courier services data through tables in a database. The benefit of staging tables is that ERP professionals do not have to master equipment integration with some companies prefer ERP vendors become experts in their own products and other vendor products.
For companies seeking help in other parts of their business, there is a separate resource planning system known as facilities management. These solutions will undoubtedly increase return on facility assets.
Facilities management for courier services manages an organization’s mail room, inventory and distribution operations. This will include shipping and receiving critical parts, which makes for a better option than deploying expensive in-house transportation which then consists of training and supervision of all staff.
They can help finance and real estate executives make faster, more informed decisions. Better decision making can bring increased value to organizations through identification of high-return real estate transactions, increased facilities utilization and reduced energy expenses.
Facilities management software can evaluate balance sheets, profit and loss impact of a facility lease, identify poor facilities, assets, processes and resources. They simplify scenario analysis of strategic facility plans against plan goals and status quo scenarios.
Additionally, they analyze building conditions, prioritize investments and assess return on investment for smarter facilities decisions. Automate generation of critical alerts, payment processing and other critical facilities controls. As an additional benefit, facilities management schedules transportation. Good facilities management providers work well within the organization to adjust to any businesses criterion.
A reputable fleet management courier service will deliver speed and efficiency. A fleet management system should handle the logistics of a business in maintaining optimized routes for vehicles, which enables the courier to be prepared for updating routes for changing traffic conditions.
A functional fleet management system will automate routes by using components to balance workload, routes, and addresses and manage disruptions in schedules with ease and sophistication. As of today, our ERP:FM fleet management module is integrated with GPS tracking that works with mobile devices and tailored hardware that fits right into any vehicle, this then reports back location information along with other variables. Additional features incorporate mobile devices to manage equipment information, fuel, preventive maintenance, service requests, work orders, shop assignments, parts inventory, accident management, and employee data.