What is fleet management software?
Fleet management software helps a company track, maintain, and optimize its vehicles in one system, covering location, fuel use, maintenance schedules, driver behavior, and routing. It turns a scattered fleet into something you can actually see and steer.
It helps a company track, maintain, and optimize its vehicles in one system.
Where every vehicle is, which one is due for service, who is driving safely, and where fuel is leaking from the budget.
Answer those questions in real time and a fleet runs leaner.
Fleet management covers the whole life of your vehicles; route optimization focuses on how they move.
What a fleet system covers
- Location
- Fuel use
- Maintenance schedules
- Driver behavior
- Routing
The value is visibility. Where is every vehicle, which one is due for service, who is driving safely, and where is fuel quietly leaking from the budget. Answer those in real time and a fleet runs leaner.
Figure 1. What fleet management software keeps in one system
Restates this article: one system answers where every vehicle is, which one is due for service, who is driving safely and where fuel is quietly leaking, and covers routing too. Structure only; no values are drawn.
Most platforms now fold in routing and analytics, so managing the fleet and optimizing how it moves happen in the same place.
Sthenos builds logistics platforms on top of big data and analytics, including an optimization platform for a Nordic logistics fleet.
What is the difference between fleet management and route optimization?
Fleet management covers the whole life of your vehicles. Route optimization is one part of it, focused on how those vehicles move.
Fleet management
The whole life of your vehicles- Location and fuel use
- Maintenance schedules
- Driver behavior
- Routing, as one part
Route optimization
One part of fleet management- Focused on how those vehicles move
- The most efficient way to move vehicles between stops
- Balancing distance, time, traffic, capacity, and delivery windows
Related reading
Related terms:
- Guide: What Is Last Mile Delivery?
- Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
