Kinto Europe, Toyota’s dedicated mobility brand, is implementing Sofico’s Miles Enterprise software platform across Europe to manage all its vehicle usage transactions.

Kinto Europe’s implementation of the Miles Enterprise software platform has been led by Phillip Boxsell, director – new business development

Launched in December 2020, Kinto Europe is a joint venture between Toyota Motor Europe and Toyota Financial Services, and accelerates Toyota’s ongoing transition from car manufacturer to mobility provider. As well as full-service leasing, the business offers an array of other Kinto-branded mobility services.

Following an extensive evaluations and selection process, Kinto selected Miles Enterprise to manage all its vehicle full service leasing activities based on previous experience of working with the platform in Australia, where it is employed by Toyota Fleet Management to manage a fleet of around 130,000 cars.

As part of a major pan-European roll-out across Kinto Europe’s operations, Miles Enterprise has been implemented in five leading markets, starting with France and followed by Italy, Spain and Germany. In addition, there is an ongoing phased implementation process in Belgium involving the retail, wholesale and fleet sides of the business.

The implementation has been led by Phillip Boxsell, director – new business development and Darren Hing, senior manager systems at Kinto Europe, along with Bernard Zweistra, project manager from Sofico.

Together they worked with an adaptation of Sofico’s Miles Reference Implementation (MRI) methodology, developed to reduce overall implementation time frame, based on experience gained from implementation projects around the world.

The framework has helped create a common basis for each successive country roll-out and accelerate the implementation of Miles Enterprise in each country.

Phillip Boxsell commented: “Through the development of four greenfield sites and two existing businesses we have been able to develop a pan-European entity, which has been an outstanding success and has grown to around 100,000 vehicles, in a very short space of time.

“We have plans to grow our full service leasing and mobility services across Europe, and the Miles Enterprise platform is a great foundation to support our plans. We could not have done that without the input and expertise of Sofico and our close collaboration in implementing the Miles Enterprise platform so efficiently and effectively in our key markets.”

Gémar Hompes, Sofico managing director, added: “We are delighted that Kinto Europe has been able to establish its hugely successful business across Europe in such a timely manner.

“It has been testimony to the ability of our two teams to work so closely and effectively together to bring about this superb success story.”