Peapod controls rising fleet running costs with FleetWave

Peapod is the nations largest and most successful online grocery and delivery service provider that serves more than 270,000 customers throughout 18 markets and metro areas across the country. As Peapods business and customer base continues to expand into more markets, so too does the size of their fleet and their need to have real-time visibility over a myriad of fleet operating details.

Using FleetWave®, Peapod is now reaping the benefits of the most sophisticated and flexible web-based fleet management information system available. With the ability to track and centrally manage vehicle utilisation, driver and personnel details, accident and incident management even moving violations and parking tickets, Peapod has realized significant improvements in fleet as well as personnel utilisation across their growing enterprise. With the ability to consolidate all of these disparate fleet operating details with maintenance and complete fuel transaction details, Peapod now has the ability to manage their fleet through information rather than instinct. Accessed over the Internet, FleetWave’s powerful capabilities enable each Distribution Center to control and manage their vehicle maintenance using local vendors while giving Peapod management global oversight over maintenance policy and compliance. With direct integration to Peapod’s electronic fuel management system as well as their commercial fuel card provider, all fuel transaction details are seamlessly consolidated with maintenance and fleet finance details allowing FleetWave® to deliver complete spend management as well as operational oversight. With the ability to capture and manage complete driver and accident details within FleetWave®, Peapod now manages risk and incidents in an integrated fashion, insuring that safety remains the number one priority in an organisation travelling more than 10,000,000 miles each year. With FleetWaves flexible Home Page metrics, key performance indicators and fleet status tools, Peapod’s Distribution Center managers get real-time presentation of business critical benchmarks that automatically sort by each location or area of direct responsibility. Founded in 1989 as a smart shopping option for busy people, Peapod today stands as the countrys leading Internet grocer, serving 18 U.S. markets including the metro areas of Chicago, Boston, Suburban N.Y. and Washington, D.C., and communities in the states of Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Virginia and Rhode Island. The Skokie, Illinois-based Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Ahold in The Netherlands, has achieved over 8 million deliveries since its late 1980s inception.