Ray Roller: Holman Parts Targets Large Fleets
Holman Parts Distribution is going after large national fleets, offering a more centralized purchasing experience and a one-stop shop for Ford and GM OE powertrain products.
Kathe Carter: What to Do with All the Data?
Predictive analysis and database decision-making are becoming more of a necessity for fleets, but finding the people who are experts in this field isn’t going to be easy.
Learning to Stay Ahead Using Data: A Holistic View of Incidents to Achieve Maximum Driver Safety Improvements
By Art Liggio, President, Driving Dynamics
Big data is really here. The amount of details we can amass related to drivers’ activities behind-the-wheel is impressive and loaded with powerful, useful intelligence.
However, organizations that have access to this may still face challenges achieving maximum results because a data-driven focus can have an unintentional consequence—To see the driver as a problem to be controlled rather than a resource to be leveraged.
Because organizational safety improvements are driven by learning, let’s look at two different learning approaches.
Alphabet GB sees Invoicing Efficiencies Thanks to New Ebbon Connect Division
Justine Hutchins, Purchasing Manager, Alphabet GB
Alphabet GB, one of the UK’s largest leasing and fleet management specialists, has seen a dramatic improvement in the time taken for the validation of its dealer invoices, thanks to work carried out by a new consultancy division set up by software solutions provider, Ebbon-Dacs.
The new consultancy, Ebbon Connect, has been established to provide connected solutions for customers in the fleet, logistics, dealer and automotive markets in response to growing demand from a wide variety of businesses for improved efficiencies and increased connectivity in their operations.
Use Your Influence!
Few of us are in positions of absolute power at our workplaces; yet, lacking that power, we still very often need to influence others. Looking ahead to the 2016 AFLA Conference in September, we note that leadership coach Connie Dieken, CSP, is slated to speak at a session on Tuesday, September 20th: Three Habits to Influence Others and Make Things Happen, Regardless of Position or Power.
So, speaking of influence, could we please insist that the worldwide Climate Change Accord be an essential discussion in the upcoming general election? We have just one question for the deniers: “What if you’re wrong?” Their children and their grandchildren will be just as affected as our own by their unwillingness to answer that question. The very life of our planet is at stake -- how can this be ignored?
Janice Sutton
Editor in Chief
