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Dispatch and Fleet Management Software Slashes Admin. CostsDispatch and Fleet Management Software Slashes Admin. Costs by 37%
Chances are, your company is wasting over 37% of your management resources. And here’s the really sad part – you don’t have to!
Right now, in your business, you and your staff are handling the same documents over and over - just to manage the essential information you need to run your business! This repetitive grunt work is costing many trucking companies tens of thousands of dollars every year.
Think about it. What happens to a fuel bill or maintenance invoice that comes into your office? Here’s a typical scenario:
A fuel bill comes in for one of your power units. Somebody takes that invoice and enters it into an Accounts Payable journal. Then the invoice is set aside for entry to the equipment records. And finally, it is handled again to track the fuel purchases by jurisdiction for your fuel tax reports. You’ve now handled that one piece of paper at least three times, just to track the most basic, essential pieces of information you need to stay in business!
The result: An invoice that should have taken 30 seconds or less to deal with has now cost you at least 5 minutes – over ten times the amount of time you would have to spend if you could handle the transaction with one entry!
Multiply that by all of the fuel bills, and maintenance bills, and insurance fees, and every other type of transaction you have to deal with every month, and you’re talking about thousands of needlessly duplicated entries every month. And more importantly – hundreds of wasted hours!
The cost in human terms is enormous. “Most trucking executives and clerical staff are overloaded at their jobs. Even those that aren’t are literally throwing away 20%, 30%, - as much as 60% - of their time as a result of systems that don’t work the way they should” states David Harris, Director of Operations at Axon Development Corporation, an industry leader in integrated trucking software solutions. “This is time that could be spent building your business instead of just trying to maintain it”!
Time Is The Most Precious Commodity You Have
Do you get to spend all the time you would like with your family? Are your children or grandchildren growing up as strangers? Does the love of your life need to make an appointment just to get a little quality time with you?
Are you too busy working in your business to work on your business? Just think about that for a minute. Could you put more money on your bottom line if you spent 20, or 30, or 50% of your time looking for new business, talking to customers, recruiting new drivers or owner-operators, researching, and just thinking?
The Right Management Systems Can Cut Your Workload by Over 37%
You don’t have to let things grind along the way they are now. You do have options!
New technology is quickly changing the way trucking software and related support systems work. Real-Time systems, combined with fully-integrated dispatch, fleet management and accounting systems, are rapidly replacing old-technology software systems that, while they often provide significant benefits, often prove seriously lacking in the most important area – the ability to improve productivity. According to industry analysts The Gartner Group, “Only organizations that can confidently call themselves “real-time enterprises” will thrive in the coming service-oriented economy.”
Lindsay Keene of JBM Logistics has seen first-hand just how powerful these new tools can be. “We have eliminated 3 full time positions through attrition,” states Keene. “In January 2002 we had 8 administrative staff and currently employ 5 and accomplish a greater volume of work. The results are directly attributable to the implementation of Axon’s system.”
For companies looking to improve their productivity and increase profitability, TruckingNews, in conjunction with Axon, have released a new booklet aimed at helping managers recognize many of the areas in their organizations that can be improved. Titled “101 Secrets To Help You Save Time, Make More Money, And Have More Fun In Your Trucking Business,” it analyzes many critical areas of the business, including:
How properly integrating your dispatch and operations software with your back-office systems can slash your current office staff’s workload by over 37%.
Why most of the so-called “integrated” software products only do half the job they promise to do.
How a simple one-step interface option can help cut 10 days of work or more, each and every month, from your fuel bill processing.
What most trucking software companies don’t want you to know about their so-called “Real-Time” systems that could cost you thousands of dollars every month!
How Object-Oriented programming technology can eliminate the risk of software becoming obsolete.
Why integrating your Accounts Payable transaction entry with your operations software will save you over half a week of work – every month!
How to save $thousands in overpayments to owner operators and 3rd party carriers!
Why Real-Time, Fully-Integrated Trucking Software can literally double the productivity of your office staff!
How new Visual Dispatch Technology” makes old “spreadsheet-style” dispatch systems obsolete!
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