As 2024 comes to a close, Ib Kimose, Global Business Unit Director of Autorola Solutions, notes on the highlights of a transformative year. He highlights why leading fleets such as Sixt and Enterprise continue to trust the Fleet Monitor asset management and workflow platform to drive efficiency. Additionally, Ib shares exciting developments, including the platform’s expansion to incorporate new compound and eRepair features.
Launch of Fleet Services
With large fleets coming under increased pressure to control costs, improve efficiencies, increase utilisation and automate more key processes the Autorola Solutions Fleet Monitor system has seen huge growth over the past 18 months.
After a year and a half of investment, Fleet Monitor’s footprint has been extended to include compound management under its new Fleet Services proposition. Taking the foundation of the system which has already been managing Autorola Denmark’s compound network over the past decade, it has been completely modernised and developed by our in-house development team into a SaaS model, which puts everything into the Cloud.
Fleet Services has the power to control and track the status of every vehicle on the fleet – From a new vehicle being onboarded, to it being refurbed and remarketed into the wholesale or retail sector, and every single process in between. Powerful management information is generated in real time for individual sites of head office to utilise. Autorola Turkey and Belgium will be the first countries to launch Fleet Services in early 2025.
Enterprise Turkey has already rolled out Fleet Monitor in multiple sites to run its huge rental fleet more efficiently, overseeing their entire fleet process from adding a vehicle to the fleet, to managing the remarketing process across 82 car rental offices.
Making strategic Used Car Decisions with Indicata
Autorola Solutions is now able to overlay Indicata’s used car pricing platform over its asset management protocol. This means companies can use it to make strategic decisions on when and where it can de-fleet vehicles and make the best price. This includes utilising cross border sales and exporting to other countries based on Indicata’s Europe-wide data footprint.
We will add further value to customers in 2025 when we look to launch the integration with our Indicata residual value forecasting system, as companies look for support in underwriting the vast number of new models being launched into every market.
Australian Rental Giants onboard eRepair 2.0
In other exciting news, we have also just launched eRepair 2.0! This is an upgraded version of our vehicle repair management platform, which currently processes about 6,000 repairs monthly. This latest version enhances customisation, automation, and third-party integration and provides comprehensive visibility into the repair process, helping fleets manage repairs efficiently and minimise vehicle downtime. It also allows fleets to record vehicle summary, quotation, assessment, and repair information for each vehicle, while preserving the old order workflow.
Rental giants such as Sixt and others already use eRepair in Australia for their vehicle repair management in association with their individual supply chains which are integrated into the eRepair system. A similar application to eRepair is also in use with fleets in Germany as it continues to gain traction with customers. Hertz and East Coast Rentals are using eRepair 2.0 now!
Strengthening Pan-European Partnerships
Multi-country pan-European deals like the one announced with smart, part of Mercedes-Benz, continue to go from strength to strength with the German BEV brand set to launch our Digital Showroom product in the New Year.
The types of Solutions contracts we are signing are now six figures in size and for multiple years with large OEMs, leasing and rental companies in multiple countries and much has been done behind the scenes to speed up the implementation with large new customers.
Large contracts can go live in just a few months
We can set up a large contract and have it live within just a few months now, and our implementation is much more structured and precise which it must be if it covers multiple countries and different currencies.
Autorola Group has already committed to continued investment in the Fleet Monitor platform during 2025 and beyond, with more staff and more new products and services being integrated to the main platform across our global subsidiaries.
The vision is that Fleet Monitor should be at the heart of every big fleet, and when combined with our pricing data intelligence and online remarketing platform, it becomes a powerful proposition that large companies cannot afford to ignore.
