Cambridge
Academy
In London

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Determine the goals of fleet management and the role of the fleet manager.

• applying the preventive maintenance program for the fleet.

• Determine the requirements for effective workshops.

• establishing fleet safety programs and choosing drivers.

• Using capital budget techniques to do vehicle replacement analysis

• Determine the best distribution paths.

• Creating basic performance indicators and measuring fleet services

Target Audience

This course is designed for:

• Fleet safety managers and operations managers

• managers and coordinators in fleet and transportation services.

• Experts in fleet and transportation services.

• maintenance supervisors and transportation plans.

• Everyone who finds himself in need of this session and wants to develop his skills and experience in this field.

Course Outlines

Day 1: An Introduction to Fleet Management:

• Definition of fleet management

• Fleet management goals

• The costs associated with fleet management.

• Best customer service.

• The characteristics of the fleet manager

Management of fleet maintenance:

• maintenance roles and responsibilities.

• benefits of preventive maintenance inspections.

• The scope of preventive maintenance programs

• Unscheduled maintenance.

• Road contacts

• Tire selection and management

• Resource management and vehicle parts

• Internal maintenance versus suppliers.

Day 2 :Workshop management:

• Workshop form

• Workshop tools

• Calculate the workshop's productivity.

• Utilities requirements

• The shape of the work area

• Fleet safety management

• the safety program elements.

• causes of accident prevention.

• drivers' selection criteria.

• fleet skills tests.

• Types of road accidents.

Day 3 : Measuring and improving the performance of the fleet:

• fleet measurement system.

• transportation costs and delivery services.

• cost rates

• Productivity of transport assets

• quality and financial indicators.

• Course time indicators.

• Measuring and improving the extent of benefiting from the fleet

Day 4: Distribution planning, transportation, and delivery services:

• Basics and best practices in transportation and delivery services

• Factors affecting transportation decisions

• transport network design options.

• distribution vehicles' paths.

Day 5: Replacement and selection of vehicles:

• Vehicle selection criteria

• Contract or ownership analysis.

• Vehicle replacement analysis

• Techniques for balancing capital.