Capital Equipment News March 2017

Ctrack Fleet Monitoring Services to the rescue

With the rapid evolution of digitisation, and Cisco’s predictions that 40% of businesses will die in the next 10 years, digital transformation is critical to survival in the new world order. Cassie Lessing, managing director, Strato IT Group, developer of StratoPOD, a mobile business application for delivery documentation, says 2017 has seen a wave of new interest in digitisation. “While 2016 showed marginal interest in implementing and featured discussions around the concepts, 2017 has seen companies from a broad range of industries requesting Proof of Concepts. There is a sense of urgency, possibly proof that industry has realised that those businesses that are not digitising will start to fail,” says Lessing. Strato IT Group’s digital proof of delivery app StratoPOD, has been implemented with great success in the building, manufacturing and logistics industries, most notably, Toyota South Africa’s National Parts Distribution Centre. “Partnering with our customers and working together as a team has enabled us to meet the industriousness necessary to transform our client’s business into a digital one. This evolution of digital technology has in most parts already happened in our personal lives, and is now starting to underpin almost every facet of business.” Gartner predicts that by 2017, 60% of Global 1 000 organisations will execute on at least one revolutionary and currently unimaginable business transformation effort and that by 2023, superior digital business capabilities will lead four out of five industry leaders to reposition their brand promise or build new brands. b Digitisation and the rise of Generation C

Ctrack has been tracking Massyn Vervoer’s fleet for the past 15 years.

Vehicle tracking and fleet management specialist Ctrack by Inseego recently enabled long haulage company Massyn Vervoer to identify diesel theft and fraud within its company shortly after subscribing to Ctrack’s new Fleet Monitoring Services. Ctrack has been tracking Massyn Vervoer’s fleet for the past 15 years. However, after identifying the need for an advanced telematics information and fleet management service, Ctrack introduced its Fleet Monitoring Services, a full outsource of fleet control room activities, to the company. Dedicated fleet controllers support Massyn Vervoer’s entire fleet from Ctrack’s national Support Centre, with 24/7 eyes-on-screen fleet and route monitoring and response services to incident alerts and alarms. The services also include highly proficient hindsight, insight and foresight data analytics and reporting for streamlining fleet operations. Using Ctrack’s Fleet Analytics, Massyn Vervoer was able to validate toll road transactions, which identified a driver who was regularly abusing a fuel card for non-

work purposes. On another occasion, the reports backed by real-time fleet and route monitoring was able to pinpoint a driver who was illegally offloading fuel. The Ctrack solution has enabled Massyn Vervoer to monitor its fleet’s speeding events. As a result, the haulage company virtually eliminated speed limit violations, bringing incidents down from 200 per month to just two. “Fuel can account for as much as 25% for a long haulage trucking company and the rise in fuel theft and fraud poses a serious threat to transporters’ operating profits. With regards to this, it undeniably benefitted Massyn Vervoer to invest in our Fleet Monitoring Services to help eliminate these types of risks,” says Hein Jordt, MD of Ctrack Fleet Management Solutions. “Our newest division helps customers use the vast amounts of data generated from their fleet management systems. It provides information for critical decision making, from cost savings to future investments. Our developers are constantly growing and improving the model to best suit our client needs.” b