Does Your Warehouse Handle the Distribution As Well As Storage?

If you manage a multiple vehicle fleet, then you need a tracking method to measure productivity, vehicle and driver expenditures, and speed and accuracy of inventory deliveries. Fortunately, there is a choice of software available depending upon your warehouse and distribution requirements.

Cargo tracking software comes in a variety of packages from basic to advanced services such as accounting integrations. It just depends on your organizational needs. The important thing is to determine what costs you need to track and your reporting needs.

Just a few services that you can use:

• Cost tracking
• MappingWork order management
• Labor management
• Driver data including precise tracking of vehicle activity
• Mileage tracking
• Global GPS
• Scheduling
• Work pending
• Parts Purchasing managed with auto reorder
• Accounting integration including billing invoices
  

As you can imagine this is just a flavor of the tracking and streamlining opportunities. The only way to reduce operating cost, determine budgets, and compare benchmarks is to have a method to track your organizations fleet activity. Several software programs offer the flexibility to create customized reports. Make certain that you have that feature if it does not provide you with a selection of reports that are essential to running your business. Ask the provider if there are any additional costs to creating these reports.

Carry out your research by comparing services, find out about the level of flexibility to the service and integration possibilities with your current software, and consider security level.