Gateway2Lease has become the latest leasing broker in the UK to fully integrate Ebbon Automotive’s Leaselink e-procurement platform with its back-office system to handle and process all new vehicle orders and deliveries.

Gateway2Lease opted for Leaselink to fully automate its business processes and give more direct communication with supplying vehicle manufacturers

The Bromsgrove-based broker, which supplies around 4,500 new cars a year across a variety of different manufacturers, opted for Leaselink to fully automate its business processes and give more direct communication with vehicle manufacturers.

Director Rob Marshall said: “One of the main manufacturers we work with mandated the use of Leaselink for all new vehicle orders. We then decided to take that a step further and extend it across all makes that we work with, covering all new vehicles.

“We wanted to fully capitalise upon its benefits, continuing to automate as much of our business as possible, and fully integrating Leaselink with our back-office system gave us the best option to achieve that.”

Claire Hughes, Ebbon Automotive’s head of commercial partnerships, commented: “Gateway2Lease has implemented a fully integrated process with Leaselink to maximise the benefits the system delivers and support them in delivering an excellent service to their customers. Their IT team has delivered the integration with testing in a really quick time and have been very easy to work alongside resulting in a smooth go-live.

More than 100 leasing brokers have signed up to Leaselink since the start of the year; the platform is also run by around 40 of the country’s largest leasing companies. The move has been largely prompted by several vehicle manufacturers, most notably BMW, Toyota GB and Volvo Cars UK, mandating the use of Leaselink for all leasing brokers they work with.

Claire Hughes added: “Leaselink delivers a number of benefits to brokers, including greater visibility of the whereabouts of new vehicles within the supply pipeline thanks to a direct feed from the OEMs, allowing brokers to provide accurate information to their end customers.

“Delivery is also paperless as the overwhelming majority of supplying dealers using Leaselink also utilise our market-leading collection and delivery solution, moDel, which increases transparency and removes all paper out of the system.”

Alongside Leaselink, the Ebbon Automotive business area within the Ebbon Group also includes moDel and Stockviewer, the campaign management solution. The other business areas within the group are Ebbon Compliance and Ebbon Intelligence.