Fleet Alliance provides Gala cost saving ahead-of-schedule
Fleet Alliance, the Glasgow-based fleet management specialist, chosen by the Gala Coral Group to help it deliver efficiency savings has met the betting and gaming conglomerate’s needs ahead of schedule following the outsourcing of its 300-strong company car fleet and 180 grey fleet cars. As a direct result of this Gala has forecast increased efficiency savings of £430,000 over the next two years.
Confident of the fleet management initiatives it has put in place, Fleet Alliance has also introduced a ‘savings tracker’ in order that Gala Coral can see at any time the extent of the savings that are being achieved and in which areas.
A key area of cost saving has been the contract mileage management of existing leased vehicles; Fleet Alliance forward is able to project using driver technique information the anticipated mileage for each vehicle and then re-negotiate contracts so as not to incur additional costs to the business.
All new vehicles are added to the fleet using competitive tendering, employing Fleet Alliance’s panel of three preferred funders, an approach that has been proven to cut acquisition costs by 10-12%.
Drivers are able to select and identify their next company car online through a new, specially designed web portal, a significant electronic improvement over the previous manually operated system.
Group Efficiency Director, Diane Atkins, said: “We could not be happier with Fleet Alliance’s performance and we are now projecting full first year savings of £150,000, rising to £430,000 by the end of the second year as more new vehicles are competitively tendered on to our fleet.
“I think this has demonstrated to us that we were not optimising the efficiencies of the fleet before their appointment and are now able to realise the full benefit of an outsourced fleet management solution.”
”We are also delighted with the level of service that Fleet Alliance provides; nothing is too much trouble and they deliver in a very competent, professional manner – as well as being very nice people to work with,” she said.
Fleet Alliance is also responsible for ensuring that Gala Coral meets its Corporate Social Responsibility objectives. “They are playing just as an effective role in managing our CSR objectives as they are in managing down our costs,” added Diane Atkins.
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