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Autorama selects Leaselink

Autorama, iwhich operates a fully funded fleet of around 45,000 vehicles, has selected Ebbon-Dac’s Leaselink platform to handle new vehicle orders
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February 22, 2019

Ebbon-Dac’s Leaselink e-procurement platform has been selected by Autorama to handle all new vehicle orders across its three main brands.

Hemel Hempstead-based Autorama, is one of the UK’s largest credit brokers and operates a fully funded fleet of around 45,000 vehicles.

The business operates 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 a year across its three business lines, and had previously relied on manual processes and spreadsheets. However, these were neither scalable nor could they cope with the pace of growth the business had witnessed.

To identify a more efficient and fully automated alternative, Chief Commercial Officer Jo Elms headed up a selection and implementation project which began by evaluating the main e-procurement platforms in the UK.

It quickly became apparent that Ebbon-Dacs’ Leaselink solution was not only the most widely used platform by both dealer groups and the industry as a whole, but it was the most transparent, easiest to use and most readily recognised.

The Autorama Group has some 60 supplying dealers on its system but a central core of around a dozen groups supply the bulk of new vehicle orders.

Elms said: “They were all familiar with and regular users of Leaselink which made our decision even easier.“

Leaselink is the market-leading web-based e-procurement solution in Europe and has supplied and tracked vehicles worth over £18bn in the last four years. It is used to electronically source more than 210,000 vehicles a year and links around 2,000 franchised dealers and several vehicle manufacturers to a community of major leasing, rental and fleet management suppliers.

Elms said the implementation of Leaselink was already bringing 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%

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

As the next phase of its implementation, Autorama also plans to use Ebbon-Dacs’ highly-
acclaimed moDel vehicle delivery and collection solution to control all deliveries of new vehicles in the future.

 

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Chris Wright

Chris Wright

Chris Wright has been covering the automotive industry nationally and internationally for 30 years. Following spells with consumer titles he became News Editor of Automotive Management (AM), Editor of Automotive International, International Editor for Detroit-based Automotive News, and Editor of Dealer Update. He has also co-authored several FT Management Reports and contributes regularly to Justauto.com

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