Fuelling Success: Nigraani’s fuel-tracking solutions have enabled ARSS to increase drivers’ salaries multi-fold
01 May 2021
Nigraani’s fuel-tracking solutions have enabled ARSS to increase drivers’ salaries multi-fold.
ARSS is a civil construction activities company. Its principal areas of business include road, bridge, railway, power, real-estate and irrigation works across the states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Chennai and Kerala, among others. Its widespread operations and frequent instances of fuel pilferage necessitated a transparent view of fuel usage in its fleet of trucks and heavy equipment to tackle rising fuel costs.
ARSS worked with Nigraani to equip 350 of its commercial vehicles and equipment with fuel-monitoring solutions. The savings from precise and real-time sensors helped realise return of investment in months. The gains have spread further to stakeholders like drivers, who have received up to a fourfold increase in their salaries.
Infrastructure development is a growing market in India, with an increased base of commercial vehicles like graders, excavators, DG sets and other heavy equipment for construction projects of all sizes. ARSS’s main business is in infrastructure development and the company owns more than 1,000 units of heavy equipment.
With fuel prices rising in India, saving on fuel is a priority for ARSS. Thus, the company decided to invest in Nigraani’s advanced fuel and fleet management solution to pinpoint inefficient fuel usage with 99.2 per cent accuracy.
Business challenge
ARSS’s wide-scale operation with a geographically dispersed large fleet of vehicles and equipment presented a huge challenge in managing fuel tracking, including exact volume filled, consumption during the course of business and fuel pilferage at various stages. There were associated challenges like inability to plan and forecast fuel requirement, timing fuel procurement, fuel injection kit dysfunction upon the fuel tank going empty and high turnover among drivers owing to lower pay compared to the market.
Nigraani’s solution
In a bid to optimise fuel consumption and eliminate manual fuel data entry errors, improve transparency in fleet management, prevent fuel underfilling and enhance its reputation as a progressive and efficient infrastructure company, ARSS looked for a technologically advanced, fool-proof fuel-tracking solution.
“With our previous provider, we were overpaying for antiquated technology and were way behind in ease of installation, functionality and reporting options,” explains Rajul Agarwal, Director, ARSS.
“It wasn’t long before we saw what fleet and diesel tracking could really do for us thanks to Nigraani – the ease of plug-and-play technology and custom reporting beyond ‘the norm’. With over 350 units and another 200 in the pipeline for installation in both Odisha and across India, we see no signs of slowing down.”
Nigraani’s successful fuel management solution was recommended to ARSS by another leading company in the industry. Following an extensive series of trials, ARSS opted to use Nigraani’s complete fuel and fleet management solution, consisting of a best-in-class SaaS-based fuel management platform, vehicle trackers and Nigraani high-precision fuel-level sensors. The first phase of the project involved 350 units.
Business benefits
The precise tracking of fuel in real time with high precision of 99.2 per cent enabled ARSS to automatically track filling, prevent pilferage and improve fuel planning. Profound differences between manually calculated fuel consumption data and real-time accurate data collected from Nigraani fuel-level sensors made the fuel management function easy from the comfort of the office with complete certainty and precision. ARSS is experiencing significant benefits within months of installing Nigraani’s fuel and fleet management solution:
- Return on investment of the fuel tracking solution
- Prevention of underfilling, avoiding any chances of fuel running out, which leads to defects in the fuel injection kit
- Ability to plan and forecast fuel consumption at a fleet level from the office without any manual intervention
- With a strict control on the largest cost in fleet operation, i.e. fuel cost, ARSS managed to increase the salary of drivers up to fourfold to address the issue of driver turnover and unresponsiveness.
Impressed with the results, ARSS plans to install Nigraani equipment across the company’s entire fleet.
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