Retailer The Co-operative has installed a telematics and transport management system from Microlise.

The system, which includes features such as electronic proof of delivery, driver fuel efficiency monitoring and planned-versus-actual route and schedule comparisons, will cover more than 1,300 trucks. The deal extends an existing nine-year working relationship between the two companies.

The Co-operative hopes the system will help it reduce fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions as well as accident rates.

Jon Paul Brown, national transport manager at The Co-operative Group, said: “We needed a technology refresh and had a clear objective to realise further reduction in our environmental footprint by reducing fuel consumption further.”

The system uses Paragon routeing and scheduling with warehouse management software from Manhattan Associates.

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