What are managed services? Wikipedia defines Managed Services as the practice of outsourcing on a proactive basis certain processes and functions intended to improve operations and cut expenses. Usually a particular service in an organisation consists of multiple processes which are in turn fulfilled by different service providers, providing individually for each service. The […]
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Aug
Aug
With rapid industrialization and swift growth of IT companies in India, there are many challenges which needs to be addressed from a corporate angle and one among them is managing the Employee Transport operations. It is estimated that around three lakh employees work at BPO/Call centres in and around Bangalore and nearly all of them […]
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Apr
Apr
Businesses will always look for various ways to reduce the operational cost of their transport activities. Every day, Transport Managers are put under pressure to efficiently run their vehicles without any hassle and at the same time, they are also bound to control the expenses to a larger extent. Reducing transportation costs is not an […]
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Apr
Apr
Mobile Technology has become an inevitable part of the human society. Today, we live and breathe with various advanced mobile applications in our day-to-day life for even the simplest form of work. According to Frost & Sullivan estimates, there will be 80 billion connected devices by 2020 and by 2018, 6.2 billion mobile phone users […]
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Jan
Jan
The car rental business in India is indeed a promising market with both the organized and unorganized sector in play. The dominance of the unorganized sector is attributed to its service parameters like quality of service, reliability, transparency in price, etc. The need for a shift from the unorganized to a more structured and organized […]
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Dec
Dec
In a developing country like India, the Commercial Vehicle Telematics industry is slowly making its presence felt in the unorganized Logistics sector. The untapped market is seeing a huge potential growth over the years with increased spending from the Indian Government for improving infrastructure. The implementation of laws pertaining to Cargo and Passenger safety is […]
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Sep
Sep
Coordination is the essence of fleet management. Particularly, in Car Rentals and Employee Transportation System, supervisors play an important role as a linking pin to improve the quality of service. The duties of Supervisor will mostly include the following: Ensure timely pickup & drop of Customer or Employee Keeping track of vehicle location and status […]
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Jun
Jun
I have been associated with telematics industry for more than a decade, now I am a founder of a telematics start-up, let us sit back and analyze where this industry is moving towards or what you need to do to create a scalable business model? There is a clutter of operators mushrooming everywhere in India, […]
15
Jun
Jun
In India there are about 2.5 lakh employees of corporates are using transport provided by their companies, this employee movement is handled by niche transporters with about 3 lakh fleet across the Country. It might be eye-raising that companies are spending 6-8% of their operating cost on corporate employee transportation alone. We at Sun Telematics […]