Client Background
Founded by a trusted fuel management expert, leading fuel management company is a nationwide outsourced fuel management and fuel consulting company dedicated to providing fleet management solutions to its clients with lower diesel fuel prices and gas prices for their fleet fuel. Company serves a broad range of fleet clients, from smaller private trucking companies to Fortune 500 companies that all need fleet fuel management to lower their diesel fuel prices. They surveys the fleet fuel market, negotiates diesel fuel prices, analyzes fuel practices, and develops money-saving fuel strategies and delivers comprehensive fuel management programs that improve their clients’ bottom line.
Challenges
In order to provide their clients’ with the best money-saving fuel strategies, this company commits much of its time and resources to finding, collecting, calculating, and analyzing data from multiple sources. Top fuel card companies like Shell, FuelMan, Olympian, Check, CFS, FleetOne, and EFS, must have their transaction data imported. Fuel consulting experts must extensively research the fuel market while this company monitors fuel price fluctuations and negotiates fuel prices on a daily basis. These processes require several calculations and data integration from third party companies. This was a challenge that drained company time and money.
Solutions
AllianceTek first analyzed company’s business operations to understand its objectives, requirements, and challenges. AllianceTek then proposed a Business Intelligence System for this company that would minimize the resources required to gather fuel data while implementing better practices that would enhance the analysis of that data. The solution has fuel prices and fuel card transactions from company’s clients automatically imported into the system, with no manual entries required. Based on prices and transactions, along with earlier data showing the previous costs of fuel, the system will then generate a report that shows comparative analysis between current fuel savings and those prior to this company’s service.
Implementation
AllianceTek worked with this company on implementing a solution that would be simple to use and seamlessly integrate with their existing operations. An Intranet application was developed using the latest .Net technologies which uses an MVC architecture that was installed on a highly configured web server.
Result
The previous workload of collecting, analyzing, and reporting data was reduced to zero since these manual tasks are now automated with AllianceTek’s solution. The BI solution quickly generates reports on the fly. Not only did this new system free up valuable resources at this company, it also enables them to provide a better service to their clients. Using the system, company can submit quick reports to their Fortune 500 clients. These custom reports show fuel costs saved by division, location, date range, merchant and whether the savings were on diesel fuel or gas.
