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By Cheryl Knight

The company’s Uniform and Career Apparel service arm began a fleet operations realignment in 2006 in an effort to utilize people, processes, and technology. Management has streamlined operations, enhanced consistency, and improved cost efficiencies.

Tags: America's Most Admired Companies, Aramark, fleet operations realignment, uniform and career apparel

By Staff

Often viewed as an interloper bent upon wresting authority away from fleet managers, strategic sourcing is a relatively new process introduced in the 1980s. Fleet managers should view it as a tool for success.

Tags: strategic sourcing, workplace strategy

By Ed Bobit & Cindy Brauer

With anonymity guaranteed, fleet managers speak candidly of their relationships with suppliers — for some, a good partnership; for others, less than satisfactory.

Tags: Evaluate, fleet managers, Relationships, Suppliers

By Richard Alaniz

Employee monitoring can be used to ensure employees are where they should be, mitigate risks, counter theft, and more. However, there are legal pitfalls if handled incorrectly.

Tags: Employee Monitoring, GPS, Legal, Surveillance

By Cheryl Knight

Pete Silva, director, fleet procurement of PepsiCo, is Fleet Financials’ 2008 Fleet Executive of the Year. Among his achievements is developing purchasing synergy between the PepsiCo operating units and its bottlers.

Tags: Award, fleet executive of the year, PepsiCo, Pete Silva

By Cheryl Knight

Xerox relies on global partnerships to manage costs, right-size its fleet, and reduce its environmental footprint. Through an aggressive CO2 emission-reduction program, the company has exceeded its greenhouse gas reduction goal six years early.

By Cheryl Knight

Customer service, maintenance management, asset management, and engineering design are key best practices for a company that serves 10.5 million U.S. residential and commercial customers.

Tags: asset management, best practices, engineering and design, logistics, maintenance management, ServiceMaster, strategic sourcing, supply chain management

By Staff

Smart companies recognize the value of company vehicles, whether they’re strictly utilitarian or compensatory. It is critical, however, not to let vehicle inventory get out of hand. Right-sizing is a difficult, but necessary task.

Tags: fleet reductions, Right-sizing, surplus

By Staff

Since the driver of a company vehicle is given a responsibility for an asset worth thousands of dollars and costs thousands more to operate, the company has a responsibility to recognize and identify drivers who pose a risk.

Tags: driver, liability, risk, safety, security, violations

By Grace Lauron

Private sector fleets are taking on more social responsibility with green fleet initiatives.

Tags: Abbott,