Chevin Continues Growth with United Agri Products

Chevin Fleet Solutions continues to prosper in North America by "Growing" with North America's largest agricultural company, United Agri Products (UAP). UAP develops and distributes crop production products (seeds, fertilizers, pest & weed inhibitors and horticultural products) and services to growers across the United States and Canada. Operating and distributing more than $2.5 Billion annually in products and services through more than 330 locations across North America, UAP manages and maintains almost 10,000 pieces of equipment using Chevin’s flexible web-based fleet management information system, FleetWave. In an effort to improve asset utilisation, vehicle performance and lifecycle cost visibility while enhancing the maintenance management of their diverse service and sales fleet, UAP has brought it’s maintenance management "in house" and established a Maintenance Control Center to manage external fleet repairs, preventive maintenance, fuel management and certification compliance. Through a central call center, UAP uses Chevin's FleetWave® to quickly and efficiently coordinate and authorize vehicle repairs in a matter of moments. Using FleetWave’s flexible form design, Maintenance Control Coordinators are able to survey pending inspections/repairs, view and query previous repair history, and schedule, reconcile and authorize repairs and payment directly from a single screen. With direct integration to multiple "enterprise" systems within United Agri Products, FleetWave® eliminates multiple databases, excessive manual data entry and will dramatically improve the cost control and warranty recovery available to UAP. Yet enabling UAP’s Maintenance Control Coordinators to quickly and efficiently schedule and manage preventive maintenance and emergency repairs was only part of the capabilities required by UAP. In addition, UAP needs to continually consolidate all fleet related costs from acquisition and depreciation through remarketing, capture ever changing driver and accident management details as well as integrate and report on fuel and maintenance purchases for its diverse fleet of sales and support vehicles. 'With FleetWave®, all these diverse requirements are met,' said Ron Katz, Vice President of North American Sales for Chevin. In addition, 'with FleetWave’s flexible capabilities, future needs can be easily accommodated' without the need for expensive and time consuming programming.'