Online sales of fleet vehicles are on
the rise, but internet purchasing is still erratic on a day-to-day
basis, software specialist epyx has said.
The company, whose 1link.co.uk e-commerce
platform is used by fleets to order new cars and vans from
franchise dealers, has reported orders up 50% for the year to
end-June, but has still not reaching pre-recession levels.
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Epyx head of business development Ken Trinder
said: “Fleets are certainly buying cars and vans in much higher
numbers than during the last couple of years, but are not
automatically repeating orders in the same way they would have done
before the recession. Instead, each order for a single vehicle or a
batch is being carefully considered.”
Trinder pointed to “strong indications” that
fleets are increasingly using e-commerce for vehicle ordering.
“The benefits that e-commerce brings to fleets
buying cars and vans are very similar to those it delivers in areas
such as buying service and maintenance or short-term hire,” Trinder
added.
“It provides access to a wide pool of
high-quality suppliers through a process that is fast, accurate and
costs less than existing methods.”
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