Industries
Transport and logistics
The real cost of a vehicle is not read off the fuel bill: it is calculated from mileage, maintenance, downtime and delays.
Stakes
What weighs on the trade
- Operating cost per vehicle poorly known
- Unanticipated downtime
- Traceability of goods and transport documents
- A cold chain that has to be proven
Critical operations
What must not stop
- Transport planning
- Tracking vehicles and drivers
- Transport and customs documents
- Fleet maintenance
- Billing of services
Why digitalise
What technology changes here
Attaching every cost to a vehicle and a mission turns an overall expense into a cost per kilometre, comparable between vehicles and between routes.
What can be automated
- Planning and assignment of missions
- Service alerts based on mileage or hours
- Production of transport documents
- Cost per mission and per kilometre
- Alerts on temperature excursions or driving-time limits
Capabilities
What we put in place
Software
- Fleet and mission management
- Goods and shipment tracking
- Transport document management
- CMMS for vehicles and plant
- Customer tracking portal
Data
- Cost per kilometre and per vehicle
- Fleet availability rate
- Punctuality by route and by customer
- Fuel consumption relative to the load carried
IoT
- Geolocation and real-time fleet tracking
- Temperature probes for the cold chain, with timestamped records
- Reading vehicle data for mileage and consumption
- Detection of door opening and unplanned stops
Artificial intelligence
- Forecasting maintenance needs from the measurements
- Estimating times from the real history of journeys
- Detection of consumption anomalies
Integrations
- Customs and port systems
- Customer ERPs for exchanging orders and statuses
- Mapping and route calculation
Security
- Access to positions limited to authorised people
- Temperature records kept with verifiable integrity
- Traceability of transport documents
- Protection of drivers' data
Our approach
A typical path in this sector
Real cost
Reconstructing the cost per vehicle from existing data — often revealing.
Instrumentation
Tracking units and probes fitted to a representative sample.
Operations
Planning, tracking and alerts put into service.
Maintenance
Servicing triggered by real counters rather than by the calendar.
Related services
The services we bring in
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