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“CONSUMERS ARE EXTREMELY SAVVY , CLEARLY ,, AND WE WANT TO KNOW THAT THEY ' RE ' NOT IMPACTING THE ENVIRONMENT NECESSARILY ”
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GOFFER UK PRODUCT MANAGER , TELETRAC NAVMAN While the risk is inevitable , data is the educator in this process , and solutions like Teletrac Navman ’ s Electric Vehicle Readiness tool , provides the necessary insight to help fleet managers better educate themselves on their operations , leveraging greater visibility .
Aside from the operational concerns , consumers are also more and more preoccupied by the sustainability credentials of companies they buy from . This means that organisations are under pressure from both angles . They want their supply chain actions to be sustainable , and their customers want products to be provided at no cost to the planet .
“ Consumers are extremely savvy , clearly , and we want to know that they ' re not impacting the environment necessarily . So , people are making decisions to buy from businesses that have strong green credentials that have a forward-looking organisation focused on exactly that – minimising carbon emitted into the atmosphere and overall environmental impact ,” says Goffer .
Track and trace settles some concerns As fleet operators consider the potential impact of electrification on their fleets , it ’ s important to understand how track-and-trace can not only make EV adoption much simpler , but also allow companies to seamlessly integrate their vehicles into their digital ecosystems .
“ It ' s important to know when a certain threshold is met for a particular vehicle so you can get it back out on the road straight away . The converse of that could be that you want to know if something is unlikely to meet its delivery slot , it ' s going to run the risk of actually running out of charge ,” says Goffer .
Visibility of logistics operations is perhaps one of the most critical benefits of
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