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Discover the possibilities of digital fleet management

Put an end to spreadsheets and paper-based processes – our IoT-based fleet management solutions simplify your administration and give you full transparency into the use of your vehicles. They help you minimize costs, make processes more efficient and drive the growth of your business.

Fleet managers face many challenges

As a fleet manager, your day-to-day life is both multifaceted and stressful – you must plan the required journeys in the shortest possible time at the lowest possible cost and satisfy your customers. In doing so, you encounter numerous challenges.

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Intransparency of vehicle use
Who is doing what, where, when and with which vehicle? You lack a complete overview of the usage of your fleet. This makes it difficult for you to plan routes efficiently and prevent unauthorized private use.

High documentation workload
From the obligation to archive tachograph data to regular driving licence checks – as a fleet manager, you have to meticulously document compliance with legal requirements. This costs you a large part of your time.

Missing location data
If customers ask for an exact delivery time, you cannot provide any precise information because you do not know the location of the vehicle. Telephone inquiries to the driver are often unsuccessful, so you cannot give satisfactory answers.

Sustainability requirements
You are required to make the ecological footprint of your fleet increasingly transparent. In addition to documenting CO2 emissions, route optimization to reduce tire wear and pollutant emissions are becoming more and more important.

This is possible with IoT in fleet management

Our solutions for digital fleet management offer you numerous advantages

Use case: Fleet operators and haulage companies are increasingly expected to make their CO2 footprint transparent and improve it. Besides the economic necessity to reduce fuel consumption and tyre wear, sustainability is steadily becoming a competitive advantage.

Challenge: Manual recording of the CO2 footprint is hardly affordable and can only be implemented through rough estimates. The reduction of empty runs gains additional importance in this context.

Solution: The route- and vehicle-specific recording of kilometres driven and fuel consumption enables you to evaluate CO2 emissions more precisely.

Your benefits: You can use data on actual CO2 emissions to reduce the ecological footprint of your fleet and use it as a competitive advantage.
 

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Use case: As a fleet manager, you need an overview of your fleet – for example, when which vehicle needs to be inspected by the TÜV (MOT) or when leasing contracts expire. Important information also includes the loading capacities or the suitability for hazardous goods or refrigerated transport. In addition, there are the skills of the driving personnel, prescribed inspection dates, as well as the utilisation, i.e., the distance in kilometres each vehicle has achieved, so that the kilometre quotas of the leasing contracts are optimally utilised.

Challenge: Manual maintenance of master data in lists is very time-consuming, dates are quickly overlooked, km mileages are often only available in the logbook, which remains in the vehicle.

Solution: The fleet management tool enables the central systematic recording of all master data in one place, which can be easily linked for the evaluation of upcoming appointments. The usage of the vehicles also quickly becomes transparent and can be taken into account much more easily when planning deployments.

Your benefits: You gain maximum transparency of the vehicle fleet and the skills of the driving personnel. This enables you to improve deployment planning and optimise utilisation.
 

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Use case: In the transport and forwarding industry, a number of legal requirements must be fulfilled. They range from regular driving licence checks to proof of training for the driving personnel to the keeping of a logbook and tachograph archiving.

Challenge: In order to avoid fines, legal deadlines must be adhered to and met, and checks are to be carried out and archived securely.

Solution: The measures to be carried out are implemented on schedule and automated. The driving licence check can be carried out by the driving personnel directly via app, independent of location and time. The driver's logbook is available digitally in compliance with the law and the tachograph records can be made available automatically.

Your benefits: You are relieved of the organisational effort required to comply with legal requirements and receive audit-proof and uniform documentation.
 

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Use case: For billing customers and proving compliance with legal regulations, numerous data such as mileage, consumption, and driving times must be recorded.

Challenge: In order to provide proof of driving and resting times, for both billing purposes and to optimise fleet deployment, information is required that can no longer be recorded and processed manually.

Solution: Reports with filter functions for all important key figures are created in real time in compliance with the obligation to provide proof. The fleet deployment reporting system helps you by automatically generating overviews of kilometres driven, idle times, routes driven, speeds per route section, trip durations, staff deployment schedules, fuel logs, CO2 emissions and visit evaluations.

Your benefits: Extensive reporting on the individual vehicles and the fleet with different displays enables you to perform qualified evaluation of journeys and optimisation of fleet deployment.
 

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Use case: Fleet controlling provides the key figures that enable economic decisions to be made in fleet management as well as for the invoicing of the services provided. It compiles all vehicle costs and relates them to vehicle or driver performance. This visualizes savings opportunities and measures for improvement.

Challenge: Fleet operators need information in order to procure the right vehicles, choose the most economical form of vehicle financing, optimise the use of vehicles, minimise ongoing vehicle operating costs, recognise the risk of accidents and damage and minimise the expense involved, as well as achieve the highest possible residual values when selling the vehicles.

Solution: With our solutions, all the data required for the monetary evaluation of vehicles and fleets is collected and clearly presented for decision-making.

Your benefits: The clear preparation of the data gives you a solid basis for financial decisions and allows you to objectively assess risks.
 

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Use case: Digital route planning finds the best way between a starting point and a destination. In most cases, one or more locations in between ("via") can also be specified. Criteria can be specified whether the fastest, shortest or most economical route should be searched for. Complex algorithms are used to determine the optimal route.

Challenge: When planning their logistics orders, fleet operators have to plan according to time and economic constraints and at the same time take into account the availability of drivers and vehicles. Legal regulations, contractual agreements and forecast traffic situations must also be factored in. For larger fleets without software support, this is no longer possible in a cost-effective manner.

Solution: With our products, we support effective route planning to optimise costs and satisfy customers and recipients.

Your benefits: As a fleet operator, you can optimally schedule your fleet and drivers according to the order situation.
 

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Use case: Fleet operators must carry out driving licence checks at regular intervals to ensure that their drivers are in possession of a valid licence and that it is suitable for the work they are doing. This is to ensure that legal requirements are met, that the fleet operator fulfils its duty of care towards its employees and that accidents are avoided.

Challenge: The checks of valid driving licences in the fleet grow with increasing employees and vehicles and can no longer be managed manually. Time-consuming coordination of appointments, on-site appointments for the driving personnel and documentation of the driving licence check are associated with a high organisational effort.

Solution: With our solution, driving licence checks are carried out digitally via an app and a control seal on the driving licence. It can be carried out by the driving personnel regardless of location and time, and the test data is immediately documented in the portal.

Your benefits: You do not have to perform manual checks via forms and visual inspections, thus reducing organizational effort.
 

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Use case: The driver's logbook enables the automatic creation of route reports and visit evaluations, provides an overview of the staff and vehicle deployment plan, and determines the standing times of the vehicles. It also serves as an essential basis for invoicing and in the event of complaints. The data collected includes: distance driven, idle times, tank and emission data, driving time, speed, time recording, customer visits, operating hours, trailer information.

Challenge: The documentation of journeys by trucks and company cars is very time-consuming for fleet operators. In particular, the large number of vehicle movements and events concerning the vehicles as well as the requirements for planning and invoicing the fleet are associated with a high organisational effort.

Solution: With our solutions, all the data required for evaluating fleet movements is collected and made available in all the necessary formats for efficient decision-making and invoicing.

Your benefits: The digital driver's logbook significantly reduces your manual efforts in fleet management – especially in accounting. It also improves data quality through the automatic recording of journeys.
 

Digital driver's logbook on the smartphone

Use case: In addition to an overview of the vehicles themselves, fleet managers need an overview of other assets such as trailers, swap bodies, mobile superstructures and even soil vibrators or lawn mowers in landscaping.

Challenge: Mobile assets are used in very different ways. They get lost again and again and then have to be searched for at great expense, for example by driving around the construction sites.

Solution: Equipping the assets with Bluetooth beacons, for example, makes it possible to determine the last location of the assets. Valuable assets can be found again at any time thanks to autonomous tracking solutions. The effort required to search for lost assets or assets forgotten at construction sites is minimised. In case of theft of valuable assets, the last location can be tracked.

Your benefits: You can optimise the deployment planning of assets, because the current location can be viewed at any time. In the event of a theft of valuable assets, you can locate the last location.
 

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Use case: Order management provides the driving personnel with all the necessary information to complete orders effectively. The in-vehicle transport logistics system provides the orders, locates the vehicle, and monitors the vehicle and the driver. It is used for trucks, vans, service vehicles, cars and heavy vehicles such as tractors, combine harvesters, pile drivers, tunnel construction machines and cranes.

Challenge: Drivers need to be informed directly about current and changed orders in order to make immediate decisions on driving style and route changes. This must therefore be done promptly in order to keep costs as low as possible in the event of order changes or changed general conditions (e.g., if a delivery is cancelled).

Solution: Our solution provided the driving personnel with the necessary information to adjust routes and driving behaviour in real time. The automated deployment and route planning leads to optimal results. In connection with an interface to the ERP system, orders can be transferred directly into the route planning, manual processes are no longer necessary.

Your benefits: You can significantly reduce your costs through immediate intervention in order processing and delivery and use your personnel and machines more efficiently.
 

Man in car checks real time information about his orders

Use case: Navigation involves determining the current position and finding the best route to the destination. The data in the vehicle is determined during the journey and shows the current status, which may deviate from the planning. As soon as the driver is on the road, the in-vehicle navigation gives him or her the route to be taken in real time. To avoid misunderstandings in case of last-minute changes in the planning, it is necessary that navigation and route planning interact.

Challenge: To avoid lost time in deliveries and to speed up order management, it is often necessary to adjust route planning and the current route at short notice. This can be necessitated by the acute traffic situation as well as by changes in order processing. For this to happen in real time, the in-vehicle navigation must be linked to the route planning.

Solution: With our solution, each route can be planned and clearly displayed so that your drivers can easily follow it and route changes are communicated immediately. Destination details support a quick delivery or pick-up.

Your benefits: You are able to make any necessary adjustments to the planned route during the journey. At any time, you receive predictions of the estimated time of arrival (ETA). This enables your driving staff to deliver and pick up efficiently.
 

Parcel delivery driver navigating in delivery vehicle

Use case: The driving personnel frequently still use paper documents at the end customer's premises. Whether forms, delivery notes or checklists – handovers often have to be confirmed or countersigned.

Challenge: The use of paper documents often results in manual and error-prone additional work and the data is not available in real time.

Solution: The digitisation of forms such as delivery notes and the possibility of digitally recording the handover signature leads to the avoidance of paperwork.

Your benefits: Paperless document management can expedite your invoicing process. Optimised processes lead to more employee satisfaction and ensure better quality and service.
 

Customer confirms receipt of goods with paperless document management via smartphone

Dormant Connectivity: affordable connectivity option for your products

New: Embedded Basic Connectivity – Connecting your products has never been so easy!

„Make everything cellular connected“ - simplifying IoT Connectivity: Embedded Basic Connectivity is an affordable and simple connectivity option for your products. It allows you to equip your products with connectivity ex works and activate the connection as soon as your business model requires it. This allows you to set the course for the future without economic risk today!

  • Flexibility: Upgrade the data plan for your connected products according to customer requirements. Future-proof set-up and utilise the benefits of networking at any time.
  • Quality: With Telekom's expertise and established partners, we offer implementation and utilisation with an excellent price-performance ratio.
  • Simplicity: With easy access to our global IoT network and our high-quality nuSIM technology, we provide a comprehensive service and seamless implementation.
  • Security: Secure networks, certified IoT hardware and software. Ensuring the seamless interaction of network, hardware and software.

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Examples and use cases

  • Challenge

    The textile care and rental company wanted to make its work processes and costs more transparent. Therefore, it wanted to introduce a digital telematics solution. At the same time, this should ensure higher productivity through route optimisation and digitalise order processing by the drivers.

    Solution

    Together with Telekom and software partner DeDeNet, bardusch has converted its fleet management. Software plans routes strategically, taking requirements and capacities into account. An app replaces paper processes. In-app navigation adapts routes to the traffic situation as needed.

    Customer benefits

    After the introduction of the solution and through the combination of online portal, driver app and special industry functions, added value quickly materialised: optimised routes, significant time and cost savings, higher process transparency and lower fuel consumption.

  • Bardusch truck on a freeway

    „For the first time, we had data transparency on costs, driving times and rest periods, with 320 drivers.“

    Mathias Göhrig, Managing Director bardusch GmbH


  • Challenge

    The catering company Gourmetta delivers to businesses, schools, nursing homes and private customers in the greater Dresden area. In order to optimally plan the routes of the more than 50 vehicles and deliver meals on time, Gourmetta was looking for a solution to make the processes more efficient.

    Solution

    Together with Telekom and software partner DeDeNet, Gourmetta has significantly simplified its order management and increased customer satisfaction through greater transparency and reliability. Tracking eliminates the need for calls to the driver, and meaningful information can be passed on to the customer.

    Customer benefits

    The paperless solution simplifies the work of the driving personnel and speeds up order processing. Dispatchers now have a real-time overview. A competitive advantage is created through better customer service. In addition, more orders can be executed in less time.

  • Gourmetta employee during order processing

    „Thanks to the digital solution, our dispatchers now have a real-time overview and we can process our orders much more efficiently.“

    Tom Gleichmann, Head of Logistics & Fleet

Compelling reasons for Deutsche Telekom

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Individual solutions
Together with our partners from fleet management, Telekom's technical experts will find the optimal solution for your individual challenges.

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Mobility from a single source
Our solutions are designed for the mobile workplace and offer optimal connectivity – even across national borders.

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Professional support
Customer satisfaction is everything for us: You receive the support that suits you best during testing and introduction, as well as in later, ongoing operation.

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Reliable partners
The successful cooperation with our long-standing partners guarantees consistency and optimal implementation of your solutions.

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