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Product Insight: Planning & Optimisation

The rise in fast delivery models for everything from grocery and gardening supplies to high-end fashion means that fleet operators are under constant pressure to make more deliveries with fewer resources, with the current pandemic exacerbating the issue for some operators. A transport planning and optimisation solution can provide fleet managers with the capacity to…

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Why Has Microlise Joined Make UK?
Microlise has been supporting manufacturers since the 1990s, helping them to drive efficiencies with solutions that spanned warehousing and inventory in the early days, through to the award-winning transport and logistics software and Industrial IIoT applications that we have become synonymous with in recent years. With digitisation of services a primary objective for many manufacturers,…

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Product Release: 20.12

And so for the final product release of 2020. New features have been introduced alongside enhancements to existing functionality. This includes building upon previous releases, with the expansion of the journey merging capability introduced in the 20.10 release, some enhancements to journey allocation, and improvements to fleet utilisation reporting. JOURNEY MANAGEMENT Journey Management customers can…

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New Diesel Trucks a Thing of the Past by 2040?

Europe’s largest truck manufacturers are set to announce an end to sales of diesel engines by 2040 – a decade earlier than planned. Instead, Daimler, Scania, MAN, Volvo, DAF, Iveco and Ford will focus on the development of hydrogen, battery technology and clean fuels. The companies have formed an alliance and signed a pledge to…

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Standing Out From The Technology & Telematics Crowd

The transport & logistics space is pretty crowded when it comes to technology. This makes it difficult to assess the value of one offering over another, or to find the ideal solution for your business when separate components, some of which may already be preinstalled, often come from different suppliers.

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Product Insight: Sub-contractor Engagement

During peak periods when demand is high, fleets are often stretched to their limit. Extending the fleet can prove costly and leave excess capacity when work eventually slows down. Most operators therefore choose to either hire vehicles and agency staff or pass on excess work to sub-contractor fleets. The problem with both of these options…

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The Rise of Click & Collect

The current global pandemic has presented a unique set of supply chain challenges and bricks and mortar retailers have been quick to respond to the requirements of our new, near contactless culture. Working with 14 of the UK’s 15 largest retailers, we are supporting the drive for contactless through our digital and accessible workflow and…

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Product Release: 20.11

The 20.11 product release introduces a range of new features and enhancements to existing functionality. There have been a number of improvements to the work done in previous releases and to expand the availability of high-quality footage for users of our ClearVision camera solution. JOURNEY MANAGEMENT For users with access to Journey Management features, the…

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Product Insight: Trailer Telematics
With trailers constantly moving up and down the nation’s roads, and being dropped off in various locations, it is all too easy to lose track of which assets belong where. This means the ability to track the location of trailers alone presents a big advantage to fleet operators. Microlise Trailer Telematics represents a far reach…

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Product Release: 20.10

Receiving feedback from our customers is always important to us, particularly as it helps us to develop new functionality. The 20.10 release is a perfect example of this. The addition of a comments feature in the 560 Vehicle Off Road report, allowing users to provide added contextual information for their off-road vehicles, was developed in…

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