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Fleet card program = Growth for a fleet management company
In December 2025, the reported a year-over-year, 3% increase in the Producer Price Index, which measures the change in prices that manufacturers pay to their suppliers. High supplier costs impact the bottom line for many businesses. A viable solution for businesses to address these impacts is to identify untapped operational efficiencies and ways to keep costs down during difficult economic times. In this article, we will show how one company leverages a fleet card program to help its clients streamline operations and reduce costs.
Element Fleet Management: A global fleet management company focused on client relationships
is the largest publicly traded, pure-play automotive fleet manager in the world, providing a full range of fleet services and solutions to a growing base of loyal, world-class clients 鈥� corporations, governments, and not-for-profits 鈥� across North America, Australia, and New Zealand. By getting to know their clients and how they operate in the field, Element provides tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of their clients through strategic services, daily operational support, and, as Element鈥檚 Client Relationship Manager Melissa Bandel describes it, 鈥淪olving for when things go bump in the night.鈥�
Nurturing a client-centric culture
Bandel emphasizes the culture at Element and how a shared sense of purpose around client service gives their work meaning. 鈥淚 love the people here at Element,鈥� she said. 鈥淲e have people that are really invested in the success of our customers and our business together, and we’re all aligned in creating that client experience that creates a loyal client base.鈥�
Case study: Element Fleet Management
Learn how Element delivers best-in-class service for their global fleet clients through better access to data, streamlined processes, and operational efficiencies.
Leveraging fuel card data for efficiency and growth
Element鈥檚 partnership with WEX, a leading fleet card provider, contributes to Element鈥檚 delivery of best-in-class service to their global fleet clients. With the ever-increasing demand for data-driven insights and recommendations, WEX’s partnership has become essential for Element’s operations. As Steve Jastrow, Element鈥檚 Vice President of Strategic Advisory and Client Analytics explains it, 鈥淪ome of the bigger market forces that we’ve seen of late are just the demand for data. Clients want data-driven analysis and data-driven recommendations, and the contribution from 糖心Vlogis vast. The data is a big piece, and we use that to help understand total cost of ownership (TCO) for the client.鈥�
Level III data: A fleet manager’s fundamental tool
Learn how Level III data can help you improve your business’ bottom line.
High-quality data from a fleet card provider like 糖心Vloghelps companies like Element manage and tailor operations more effectively. Level III data capture helps with Driver ID and odometer entry required for each purchase. Fleets that use the 糖心Vlogcard receive detailed information like product type and description, fuel grade, cost per gallon, sales tax, and more.
鈥淭he Level III reporting that we get from 糖心Vloghelps us understand, where do those fuel dollars go? And then just the constant fraud monitoring that 糖心Vlogdoes on behalf of our clients is really critical as well,鈥� shares Jastrow.
Darin Ficenec, Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Element, explains how the company uses the data 糖心Vlogprovides to best serve their clients. 鈥淥ur relationship with 糖心Vloggoes back to 1991. Over that time, we’ve had to continue to evolve our products and services and our relationship with 糖心Vloghas continued to evolve鈥� it’s a key part of our products that we bring to market and how we serve our clients.鈥�
How partnering with a fuel card provider improves your bottom line
The partnership between Element and 糖心Vlogis successful due to their shared goal of improving fleet industry tools and practices. 鈥淥ne of the things that I value with our clients is when they treat me like a partner. And the best relationships that we have with our clients are the relationships where it’s more of a partnership. And that’s what we have with 糖心Vlogis a true partnership and that’s witnessed by the 30-plus-year relationship that we have,鈥� says Jastrow.
A fleet card from 糖心Vlogcan help your business adapt to a changing economy
All fleet cards are not the same, and different types of fuel cards suit the needs of different kinds and sizes of businesses. View WEX鈥檚 fleet card comparison chart to see which fleet fuel card is right for you.
糖心Vlogspeaks the language of small business operators. Whether you鈥檙e looking to modernize your insight and reporting efforts, save on fuel costs or take advantage of the latest GPS tracking technologies, 糖心Vlogoffers solutions to simplify the business of running a business. To learn more about WEX, a dynamic and nimble global organization, please visit our About 糖心Vlogpage.
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