JAGUAR Land Rover will use the Ebbon-Dacs e-procurement platform, Leaselink, to handle direct sales to public sector fleet customers.
New vehicle movements will also be handled by Ebbon-Dacs through the moDel vehicle movement management solution.
The Jaguar Land Rover direct sales department, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire, handles vehicles sales to police, fire and ambulance fleets, NHS Trusts and Government departments, including the Ministry of Defence. It is an approved supplier under the terms of the Crown Commercial Services framework agreement.
The framework is set up to provide public sector fleets with reduced administration and maximum value for money obtained through central government.
Under its terms, vehicles can be outright purchased or leased. Leased vehicles are supplied via a panel of 12 leasing companies, and fleet decision-makers can access a central portal that allows them to generate quotations for new vehicles. They then select the most attractive leasing quotes received on a competitive tendering basis.
Jaguar Land Rover has now consolidated its processes for managing direct sales to align with the systems being operated by the bulk of the leasing industry, most of whom are already users of the Ebbon-Dacs Leaselink platform.
Claire Watson-Brown, National Public Sector Manager at Jaguar Land Rover has been managing the16-month project to implement Leaselink.
“This has been a transformational project for us and one we are very proud of,” she said, following ‘go-live’ on May 01.
”I am confident the leasing companies on and off the framework will recognise and welcome the benefits of our switch to Leaselink. The improvements that are possible when all parties share a common platform mean that we are putting our customers’ needs first, which is at the core of everything we do.”
Claire Watson-Brown said the implementation of Leaselink was already bringing a number of benefits. These included:
improved transparency;
- the ability to track orders anywhere in the supply pipeline;
- the removal of manual purchase orders with a fully streamlined and automated ordering process;
- and a full alignment of all ordering processes between leasing company and manufacturer.
Jaguar Land Rover UK will also be using Ebbon-Dacs’ moDel vehicle delivery and collection solution to deliver all new direct sale vehicles. The moDel system, which is now employed by 17 of the UK’s largest contract hire and leasing companies along with several vehicle manufacturers and daily rental companies, has recently achieved record results with over 30,000 movements in March this year.
Leaselink is Europe’s market-leading web-based e-procurement solution which has supplied and tracked vehicles worth over £18bn over the past four years. It is used to electronically source more than 210,000 vehicles a year and links around 2,000 franchised dealers and several vehicle manufacturers to a community of major fleet management, leasing and rental suppliers.
