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The volatility of fuel costs has had a significant impact on retailers. In fact, for the first time fuel costs are outpacing labor costs for many retailers. And that makes the need for insight into your fleet management processes more important than ever before.

Your ability to optimize fleet management is mission-critical. But every solution involves a trade-off, and you must balance your overall fuel costs against considerations such as frequency of delivery, load size, store profitability versus distance from distribution center, and the potential impact of stock-outs on high-profit stores and high-profit merchandise.

With all of these factors in play, you can't rely on averages and historical information. You need timely, accurate, actionable data on your fuel costs and fleet management – plus the ability to perform detailed analysis and what-if scenarios that can help you determine the impact of potential changes to your fleet management.

SAP software delivers powerful business intelligence functionality that can enable you to optimize fleet management – so you can leverage a solid plan to address rising fuel costs.

SAP software can help you gain full visibility into your fleet management, enabling you to:

• Evaluate transportation and energy costs at any organizational level, including region, distribution center, and store
• Identify locations and business practices that exceed established fuel consumption thresholds
• Test future business scenarios, including various shipping routes, delivery schedules, warehousing strategies, alternate carriers, and fuel contracts
• Collaborate with carriers, vendors, and colleagues to reduce consumption and overall costs

As a result, you can improve your fleet management processes – and your bottom line – through better management of anticipated energy cost increases, more accurate and timely data for faster action, and greater insights into overall operating costs and trends.

Fleet management is enabled by the SAP for Retail solution portfolio, Xcelsius software, and SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management solutions.