In Ireland, the company runs a fleet of around 212 vehicles. This is a mix of mainly Volkswagen Passat company cars for sales grades and BMW and Audi models for management grades, while the company’s commercial fleet comprises primarily Opel Vivaro light commercial vehicles.

After an intense selection process, the company opted for Fleet Logistics UK as its new fleet management partner. Procurement services manager, Fernando Lallana, who led the process, said that the company had a number of objectives from its new appointment.

“Our objective following this new appointment is to professionalise the management of the Heineken Ireland fleet,” commented Stuart Donnelly, international sales director at Fleet Logistics.

“This will mean looking at all the key areas of the fleet operation including third party suppliers, vehicle acquisition, e-auctions and whole life costs. We have already taken various steps to improve vehicle acquisition costs and have been able to achieve an additional 5-8% savings in lease car rentals on the first batch of 20 new cars to be added to the fleet. These are additional savings from the previous multi-bid environment the company was using.

“We are also in the process of implementing several new third party providers for a number of fleet services, such as accident management, for example, and on the horizon we have other areas such as short-term rental, fuel management and mileage capture.”