Fleet management systems (FMS) of the Management system for motor transport service

Premises of implementation of systems

It is known that at any construction the transport component has a certain part of expenses. Export of soil and construction debris, delivery of materials to an object and also works on digging of ditches, lifting of loads and so forth it is connected with operation of cars and the special equipment. In the conditions of financial crisis when the construction industry fell into rather difficult situation, issues of increase in efficiency, profitability became before the management of the companies that is called "to the utmost". Aiming to improve business results, many of them paid the attention to information management systems motor transport service.

Shortcomings of foreign solutions

It would seem, domestic and global manufacturers offer a wide line of different enterprise management systems. However, as practice of deployment of foreign ERP systems on large industrial enterprises shows, in them the sections connected with the Russian specifics of the transport industry are not fully implemented. This space follows from different traditions of document flow in our country and other states.

For example, when studying one Austrian management system for vehicle fleet (Fleet Management System, FMS), it became clear that in it there is no such document as the waybill which in our country is the basic at operation of the car by the enterprise. Thus, the difference in business management of motor transportation firm in the western countries and at us comes to light. Moreover, even in ERP systems of foreign production, widely known at us, when accounting waybills there are not enough parameters to describe the form of the Russian permit.

Also it should be noted that the motor transportation industry is regulated by an extensive regulatory framework. For example, consumption rates of fuel are regulated by the Regulating document of Ministry of Transport of AM-23-P where about 30 different coefficients on different operating conditions are offered to use. It is also offered to MRO to carry out according to Regulations on maintenance and repair of the rolling stock in which correction factors are applied.

The solutions presented at the market

Now in the Internet it is possible to meet different offers on management systems for motor transport service. However, many of them offer rather modest functionality which is limited only to maintaining traveling documentation. Of course, for the small company having 3-8 same cars like the Gazelle it maybe is enough. Document flow is more than modest, there are practically no special requirements to reliability too, network work, most likely, too is not provided.

At large industrial enterprises of need for automation of motor transport service, of course, are not limited to the statement of waybills on the computer. As a rule, they need full accounting of fuel and lubricants in cuts on workshops, columns, crews. On the special equipment the additional engine on which fuel consumption should be considered separately is quite often installed. At the same time full accounting of waybills means also calculation of run for maintaining practices to TO and on rubber, and calculation of income on the rendered transport services, and time management of work of drivers. Besides, it is necessary to understand that documentation volume only according to waybills can reach 3000-7000 forms a month for parks from 100 cars above. Taking into account route sheets, repair sheets, orders amount of data can be quite impressive array. For its processing others are necessary absolutely the technological solution which, as a rule, work on architecture "client-server" based on SQL servers. Advantage of such systems is:

• high reliability which guarantees safety of data;
• high high-speed performance, including in the multi-user mode during the work on network;
• differentiation of access rights between users;
• record of all actions of the user (transactions) in a special log file;

From the overview of references, to such technical characteristics there correspond literally several systems:

• 1C: Management of motor transport service (based on MS SQL),
• The IC "Motor depot" (based on Sybase) Bornica companies,
• SIKE (based on MS SQL),
• NORDIS/2: Control of motor transport (based on MS SQL) Alekta companies.

Solutions have similar functionality that is not surprising as are guided by the same legislation. At the same time certain differences exist in the interface, i.e. design of windows and placement of controlling units on them. In many cases it can be a decisive factor when choosing a system as the manager who processes documentation of big vehicle fleets it is necessary to do as little as possible movements to release the machine to the line. In works of experts in ERP systems it is noted that in such cases the customer makes measurement the speed of work of the operator with a system using a stop watch.

Factor of technical support when choosing a system

Important factor at system implementation of management is availability of technical support. As a rule, many companies practice departure of the specialist for training and consultation of users. Estestestvenno, it costs to the customer money. And if the customer is in other city or the region, then also payment of the road and travelers is supposed. Thus, whether technical support costs slightly no more, than the program. However, with globalization development the whole world applies the systems of remote user support via the Internet for a long time. It significantly saves time and money of the customer. The user, where he would not be, can always receive the qualified help. Such systems of online support are still still poorly widespread among us in the country, however they radically change the speed of implementation of management systems for motor transport service at the enterprise. Thus, when choosing the program for automation of the autoenterprise it is necessary to consider the different options which are available in the market, to study positive and negative sides, to estimate in what technical support will pour out during operation.

Tenedention in development of management systems for motor transport service

The trend on leaving from paper document flow is accurately traced. All parameters of operation of the vehicle register in the on-board computer. It and the motion speed of the car, engine speed, refueling, a remaining balance in a tank and also fault which are defined by diagnostic system sensors. Data of telemetry indulge or on the GPS satellite channel, or register in the magnetic card in the digital tachograph. For example, so occurs in the FMS system of Siemens VDO company.

In public transport the wide use was received by counters of passengers (passenger counter, for example Eurotech Group companies) which in the automatic mode count the number of passengers in buses. Further these data are processed by a BI system that analysts received a picture about passazhiropotka. In our country there are already offers from Ministry of Transport, for example, about input of digital tachographs on long-distance routes and also about implementation of GLONASS.