In a move aimed at strengthening its fleet offering, Tracker has partnered with Locus, a platform that automates supply chain decisions, to power its planning, optimisation and execution management processes. 

The partnership “leverages Tracker’s telematics expertise and footprint, combined with specialist software capability from Locus, to provide a holistic supply chain management solution”, says Tracker in a statement.

Telematics data from Tracker’s subscribed vehicles is interpreted by the technology platform supplied by Locus to provide real-time transport analytics and insights. 

This complements the pre-existing Tracker insight into vehicle location and driver behaviour by delivering analytics that provide visibility at an operational level around all aspects of route planning and deliveries. 

It also enables a comparison between planned versus actual performance.

“Easy to implement, understand, and use, the technology empowers fleet managers to make immediate decisions based on automated, real-time fleet data,” says Tracker.

“The Locus platform is an automated routing system that helps businesses seamlessly dispatch and manage resources on the ground, whilst automating key decision-making steps with the help of proprietary adaptive algorithms. 

“This results in increased service level agreement adherence and reduced time, distance and operational costs.”

The platform also offers enhanced visibility from origin to destination with a control tower dashboard, driver application and customer-facing tracking interface. 

Driver analysis and scoring paired with the artificial intelligence dashcam component for driver authorisation and in-cab monitoring further enhance compliance management.

“This smart management platform assists fleets to obtain higher asset utilisation, better driver communication and seamless interactions with shippers and warehouses,” notes Tracker.

“These efficiencies offer significant cost and time savings to the business.”

“We are excited to partner with an innovative software-as-a-service partner like Locus to bolster our solution sets,” says Tracker South Africa business solutions executive Kobus Visagie. 

“This partnership translates into robust analytics and advanced routing and optimisation capabilities for our fleet customers that should produce significant benefits to these businesses in the areas of cost savings, revenue generation and increased service levels.” 

Tracker is the largest telematics brand in South Africa, generating more than 145-million telematics messages daily.

Locus is a deep-tech platform that automates human decisions in the supply chain.

The platform uses deep machine learning and proprietary algorithms to offer logistics solutions such as route optimisation, real-time tracking, insights and analytics, beat optimisation, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation, and vehicle utilisation.