UK-based vehicle leasing firm Autorama Group has selected Ebbon-Dacs’ Leaselink e-procurement platform to handle all new vehicle orders and generate operating efficiencies across the business.

Autorama is using Leaselink across all three of its brands

The business operates a fully funded fleet of around 45,000 vehicles operating across three main brands: Vanarama, which specialises in sales of light commercial vehicles; Motorama which provides new cars to both B2B and B2C customers; and Pick-up Direct which handles sales of new pick-up trucks.

The Group orders some 15-16,000 new vehicles per annum across its three business lines, and had previously relied on manual processes and spreadsheets, but was looking for a more efficient and fully automated alternative, led by chief commercial officer Jo Elms.

Following the implementation of LeaseLink, the business is already seeing a number of benefits, including greatly 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; better management information reporting; and the speeding up of delivery times by around 15%

“We use Leaselink in conjunction with Stocklink, a standalone system that Ebbon-Dacs developed several years ago and which gives our sales team an overview of the vehicles we hold in stock,” explained Elms.

“They can then reserve a vehicle for 48 hours on the customer’s behalf, but if the deal is not completed by then, the vehicle goes back into stock. It gives us more structure and control to our sales process,” she said.

As the next phase of its implementation, Autorama also plans to use Ebbon-Dacs’ moDel vehicle delivery and collection solution to control all deliveries of new vehicles in the future. The moDel system, which integrates fully with Leaselink or can be operated as a stand-alone, is now employed by 17 of the UK’s largest contract hire and leasing companies, along with several vehicle manufacturers and daily rental companies, and has recently achieved record results with over 30,000 movements in one month.

Justine Hawkins, head of commercial for Ebbon-Dacs, commented: “We are delighted that the Autorama Group has selected our Leaselink solution to handle all new vehicle orders across its three main brands, and are confident the platform will deliver the efficiencies in terms of manpower, time, management reporting and transparency that the business is looking for.”