Mercury - Fleet Management Consulting Services

<body bgcolor=ffffff text=000000 link=0000cc vlink=990099 alink=cc0000> <center> <table width="620"> <tr> <td align="center"><b><font face="Arial" color="#0000CC">Mercury Fleet Management Consulting Services</font></b></td> </tr> </table> <table width="620"> <tr> <td align="center"><font face="arial" color="c0c0c0"> <strong><br> this page is being forwarded</strong></font><br> <font face="arial" color="ffff00"><a href="http://www.mercury-assoc.com">click here!</a></font> <font face="arial" color="c0c0c0">if you do not have a frames compliant browser</font></td> </tr> </table> <br><br> <table width="90%" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <h4 align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial" color="#0000CC">Fleet Management Consulting Services</font></h4> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> Mercury is a preeminent provider of fleet management consulting services and information technology solutions for public and private sector fleet operations. Our team of professional fleet management consultants have assisted hundreds of fleet organizations, including large cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston - almost half the states in the U.S., federal agencies like the US Army and NASA, major utility companies, and Fortune 500 companies such as Sprint and Walt Disney World Company. At the other end of the spectrum, we have worked with fleets of as few as 100 vehicles. <br> <br> Additionally, our consulting firm has provided services to fleet management operations that are extremely diverse in the equipment and assets that they maintain – police and constable vehicles, public safety equipment, fire trucks, ambulance, tanks, amphibious equipment, weed eaters, chain saws, small and large generators, military tanks, sewer vacs, tandem trucks, school buses, ATVs, snow blowers, cars, pickup trucks, helicopters, planes, golf carts, air boats, jets, hover craft, and much more. This has given us a full appreciation of the daily demands and expectations that fleet management organizations share in common, and of the operational, managerial, and political environments that make each fleet manager's job unique. We do not employ a "cookie cutter" approach to our consulting engagements. Rather, we tailor our services to the particular circumstances, needs, and objectives of our clients and projects. We are particularly passionate about seeing our recommendations implemented, so we work hard to understand the communication channels and decision making processes through which a fleet manager must navigate if he or she is to affect real business process changes and tangible, measurable improvements in performance.<br> <br> One of the key factors that have made Mercury a leading provider of fleet management consulting services has been our determination to provide services whose value far exceeds their costs. Our focus on every project is to develop and secure management's commitment to implementing real-world solutions that produce the greatest return on investment for our client - regardless of the size or complexity of their fleet or the challenges and opportunities they are facing. <br> <br> In order to meet our clients' needs we offer a wide array of services to organizations with vehicle and equipment fleets of all sizes and types. Our fleet services include, but are not limited to:<br> <br> <font color="#0033CC"><b>Fuel Management</b></font><br> Nearly 50% of the annual cost of operating and maintaining a fleet is directly attributed to fuel and fuel management. It is also an area of fleet management that has become extremely complicated, because of legislation and policies at local, state, and federal government levels, global economics, vast changes in technology, increased availability of alternative fuel types, new multi-fuel enabled and hybrid vehicles and equipment, and on-going pressures to reduce emissions. Thus, for many people fuel management is a black box of complex issues, which require large sums of funding.<br> <br> Minor improvements in a fuel management program, however, can yield significant savings in the short and long term. The fleet consulting professionals at Mercury understand the issues surrounding fuel management and have extensive, first-hand experience producing solutions to these problems for clients. In fact, some of our fuel management consulting services have saved clients millions of dollars, while at the same expanding the availability of fuel site locations.<br> <br> Some of our fuel management consulting services include:</font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> <br> <i><font color="#0033CC">Alternative Fuel Program Development<br> Alternative Fuel Program Reviews<br> Bulk Fuel Site Design and Engineering<br> Commercial Fuel Program Development<br> Emission Reduction Planning<br> Fuel Management Program Development<br> Fuel Management Program Review<br> Fuel Tax Reimbursement Optimization <br> Fuel Site Consolidation Reviews <br> Fuel Site Mapping and Location Services </font></i><br> <br> <font color="#0033CC"><b>Parts and Inventory Management </b></font><br> A significant portion of a fleet operation's annual expenditures can be accounted for in parts management. This cost can vary significantly from one fleet operation to the next depending on the composition, age, and application of equipment in a fleet. However, the primary goal of every parts operation is to maintain a sufficient inventory in order to fill a high percentage of part requests immediately while sustaining a high part turn-over rate. This can be a difficult task, due to the logistics with seasonal parts, vehicle and equipment replacements, poor vendor performance, cumbersome procurement procedures, insufficient warehousing space, inadequate staffing levels, an antiquated information, and a wide array of other factors. Hence, efforts to reduce a parts operation's costs and maintain an inventory to sustain an acceptable fill-rate can often times seem to be diametrically opposed.<br> <br> As previous fleet managers and as management consulting professionals we have extensive industry experience and knowledge of the best practices in parts management. We understand the issues that affect the availability of inventory, part turn-over, stocking levels, reordering points, minimum and maximum levels, and the spectrum of other elements that influence a parts operation. We also understand matters associated with procurement policies and procedures. In fact, a principal member in our firm previously served as a procurement for a local government in Florida for several years.<br> <br> Our parts management consulting services include:<br> <br> <i><font color="#0033CC">Electronic Procurement Strategies <br> Parts Inventory Availability and Stocking Level Review <br> Parts and Inventory Management Reengineering <br> Parts and Inventory Management Reviews <br> Procurement Procedures Assessments <br> Vendor and Contractor Performance Reviews <br> Parts Warehouse Design </font></i><font color="#0033CC"><br>  </font></font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> <font color="#0033CC"> <br> <b>Fleet Replacement Plan Development</b></font><br> The replacement of vehicles and equipment in a timely manner is a problem for many fleet operations. The decision to replacement equipment is often driven by the fiscal health of the organization, breakdown or failure of the asset, or some other unpredictable factor. However, a proper fleet replacement program can provide both fleet reliability and fiscal stability for a fleet operation and to the general organization.<br> <br> Our principal consultants have been providing fleet replacement planning services for decades, which is why dozens of fleet operations have contracted with us over the years. Whether you utilize ad hoc appropriations, lease-purchase, debt financing, or a hybrid approach our fleet consulting team can assist you in developing a long-term replacement strategy. Moreover, as part of our fleet replacement planning services we will model several funding and purchasing approaches so that you have the quantitative information to justify the final funding approach.<br> <br> Some of our fleet replacement consulting services include:<br> <br> <i><font color="#0033CC">Fleet Replacement Fund Development <br> Fleet Replacement Funding Strategies <br> Fleet Replacement Plan Development</font></i></font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> <i><font color="#0033CC">Fleet Replacement Plan Audit<br> Fleet Replacement Life Cycles <br> Lease Versus Buy Analysis </font></i><font color="#0033CC"><br> <br> <b>General Fleet Operations </b></font><br> Our group of general fleet operations consulting services is one of our most frequently contracted group of services. Perhaps this is due to the value that we produce as a result of our findings. We often hear about studies, such as a strategic business plan, that our consulting professionals performed nearly a decade ago are still frequently referenced and utilized in management decisions. We believe that this is the best testament to our ability to achieve provide high quality, valuable consulting services. Moreover, virtually no other firm in the fleet industry can provide our wide array of general fleet consulting services.<br> <br> Some of our general fleet consulting services include:<br> <br> <font color="#0033CC"><i>Business Process Reengineering <br> Fleet Management Training <br> Operation Best Practice Reviews <br> Operation Competitiveness Assessments <br> Organizational Realignment <br> Policy and Procedure Development <br> Staffing Level Assessments <br> Strategic Business Planning <br> Managed Competition Facilitation <br> Vendor Contract Negotiations <br> Vendor Contract Reviews <br> Benchmarking Studies <br> Performance Measurement Solutions </i><br> <br> </font> <b><font color="#0033CC">Outsourcing and Privatization Consulting Services</font></b><br> Outsourcing or privatization is a process that most people view as an all or nothing process. In some cases this is true. However, we also find operations that are very efficient at specific services, such as preventative maintenance. In such an instance an appropriate approach may be to outsource part of an operation. Nonetheless, the choice of outsourcing part or an entire operation is not an easy one. It often times requires the review of an impartial party that understands when an operation should be outsourced, how it should be done, and the contractual pitfalls that can result in unforeseen charges and financial liability.<br> <br> Mercury is uniquely qualified to provide you with outsourcing consulting services, because we worked with many years with internally serviced and outsourced fleet operations, negotiated several outsourced maintenance contracts for clients, and provided managed competition services.<br> <br> Some of our outsourcing and privatization consulting services include:<br> <br> <i><font color="#0033CC">Managed Competition Facilitation </font></i></font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <i><font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Managed Competition RFP Development</font></i><font face="Arial"><i><font color="#0033CC"><br> Outsourcing and Privatization Contract Negotiations <br> Outsourcing and Privatization Feasibility Reviews </font></i></font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> <font color="#0033CC"> <br> </font> <b><font color="#0033CC">Fleet Information Services </font></b><br> One of the most significant changes in the fleet industry has been a veritable explosion of quantitative data. The sources of these data are multitude: fleet management information systems, fuel management systems, ERP and financial management systems, professional association databases, the Internet, GPS and AVL solutions, web-based reporting engines, ad hoc report writers, and document imaging systems. <br> <br> The increased availability of data on the fleet and the fleet operations has placed significant pressure on fleet managers and staff to maintain and produce a wide array of management information for clients, financial and auditing departments, executives, elected officials, and the general public. A major challenge for fleet managers has been and will continue to be the struggle to keep these entities sufficiently informed in a timely manner. Some of the best fleet managers in the industry have addressed this requirement by implementing proactive processes and solutions that push information to stakeholders on a regular schedule. Push technology can automatically deliver key management decision making information to email accounts, printers, fax machines, pagers, PDAs, and other communication devices. An increasing number of fleet management organizations are using their own web sites as a means of distributing invoices, reservation confirmations, recall notices, and the like to their customers. <br> <br> As a leading provider of fleet consulting services and business solutions Mercury is uniquely qualified to assist fleet organizations with their information technology needs - from A to Z. Our fleet consulting professionals have assisted several clients in the selection, implementation, and maintenance of new / replacement fleet information systems. We have also reengineered local and wide-area networks, implemented firewalls and security solutions, and provided ad hoc reporting solutions and fleet information systems. Learn more about our fleet technology solutions.<br> <br> In addition to offering local services to fleet organizations, we also provide applications hosting services. Our hosting service allows a fleet operation to implement leading edge business tools (e.g. fleet information system, ad hoc reporting, on-line consulting, and much more) without the upfront cost and time of implementing a system locally. Users pay a fixed monthly subscription fee to access these resources, while we manage server replacements, application upgrades, security and antivirus countermeasures, and data backups. Learn more about our hosting solutions.<br> <br> Some of our fleet information services include:<br> <i><font color="#0033CC"> <br> Ad Hoc Report Training <br> Application Training <br> Applied Fleet Principals Training <br> Windows Training <br> Custom Report Development <br> Data Integrity Audits <br> Fleet Information System Implementation <br> Fleet Information System RFP Development <br> Fleet Information System Selection <br> Thin Client Design, Implementation, and Maintenance <br> Implementation of LAN / WAN / Wireless Solutions <br> Application Hosting Services <br> E-commerce </font></i> <br>  </font></p> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Arial"> For more information about our fleet management consulting services, please contact Paul Lauria at <a href="mailto:plauria@mercury-assoc.com">plauria@mercury-assoc.com</a></font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </center> 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