Sainsbury’s selects Cybit telematics for its ‘Sainsbury’s to You’ home delivery fleet of over 400 vehicles

  • Cybit telematics solution set to deliver significant operational benefits and competitive advantage for ‘Sainsbury’s to You’
  • Signs three year contract with Cybit for Fleetstar-Online telematics and Smartnav satellite navigation solution
  • Fleetstar-Online enhances Sainsbury's Duty of Care provision

Cybit, the UK’s leading online telematics service provider, has announced a major three year agreement with Sainsbury’s to equip its 400 plus fleet of home delivery vehicles with an advanced fleet and asset management solution, incorporating satellite navigation technology. The agreement follows an extensive three-month evaluation, during which Cybit clearly demonstrated the ability to deliver substantial business benefit for the ‘Sainsbury’s to You’ service, highlighting opportunities to increase efficiency, reduce operational cost and aid drivers, in delivering goods on time to customers.

Sainsbury’s will install Cybit’s Fleetstar-Online telematics and Smartnav satellite navigation technology across the entire ‘Sainsbury’s to You’ fleet. Sainsbury’s key focus is to exceed its customers expectations and the Cybit telematics solution will help ‘Sainsbury’s to You’ offer a consistently high service level, with the ability to navigate a driver successfully to his destination and track the vehicles progress from when a driver leaves the store, right through to customer delivery. Improving delivery efficiency through Cybit telematics will also enable Sainsbury’s to have competitive advantage from other home delivery services.

“Operational efficiencies in our home delivery fleet are critical to the success of our ‘Sainsbury’s to You’ venture,” commented Jason Soar, Sainsbury’s Delivery Operations Manager. “Cybit’s telematics technology will be an important factor in achieving this, and we look forward to developing a successful partnership over the next three years. We selected Cybit and its Fleetstar-Online solution after an extensive three-month competitive evaluation period, during which Cybit clearly demonstrated its ability to deliver substantial business benefit to Sainsbury’s using its proven telematics technology platform, backed by an extensive portfolio of value added services.”

“The signing of this three-year agreement with Sainsbury’s is another major achievement for Cybit, and confirms the company as the UK’s leading Telematics Service Provider (TSP),” commented Richard Horsman, Cybit’s Chief Executive Officer. “Equipping its fleet of over 400 vehicles with Fleetstar-Online is set to provide ‘Sainsbury’s to You’ with a real competitive advantage, and we’re delighted that Sainsbury’s has made such a strong commitment to leveraging telematics within their business.”

Fleetstar-Online's functionality and reporting capabilities will also support Sainsbury's management of Duty of Care requirements and provision. Effective use of the data produced by the system will allow Sainsbury's to have complete visibility of the mileage, service history, distances travelled and speeds driven across its entire fleet. The real-time Vehicle Location capability, and the ability to call the 24/7 call centre in case of emergency, dramatically enhances Sainsbury's vehicle and driver safety. Under the terms of the agreement, Sainsbury’s and Cybit will also partner and further define the ‘Sainsbury’s to You’ telematics solution over the course of the contract.

Fleetstar-Online is Cybit’s scalable Internet-based telematics solution that features real-time vehicle tracking, exception reporting, replay mode, customised reports, mileage information, SMS messaging and live traffic information. Fleet vehicles are fitted with a small electronic in-vehicle-unit (IVU) which is tracked by GPS in real-time and data transmitted to Cybit’s online control centre. It provides companies with a cost-effective ASP-based fleet management solution, which offers users anytime, anywhere access to the system via a standard web browser. Fleetstar-Online also features added value solution support, with fully integrated Smartnav satellite navigation and RAC Trackstar Plus stolen vehicle recovery system functionality. Smartnav is an ‘off-board’ satellite navigation and route planning system that gathers real-time traffic information from Trafficmaster's established network of cameras and sensors around the UK.

About ‘Sainsbury’s to You’:
'Sainsbury’s to You' delivers shopping directly to the customer’s door. Customers can shop online at www.sainsburystoyou.co.uk, make their selections, then select from a range of convenient delivery times available in their area.

About Cybit:
Cybit is a leading Internet-based Telematics Service Provider (TSP) and supplier of fleet and asset management solutions to the business-to-business sector. Cybit’s solutions portfolio includes vehicle tracking and management, lone worker support and car pool management. Hundreds of companies across a wide range of industries already use Cybit’s online solutions to improve the management and control of their fixed and mobile assets. Additional information is available at www.cybit.co.uk

For more information, please contact:
Andy Gray
IBA - PR for Cybit
Tel: 01780 721 433
Email: agray@iba-europe.com

Sophie Geering
Marketing Manager, Cybit
Tel: 01480 389100
Email: sgeering@cybit.co.uk