Company Information

Autoprocurement Ltd is a Wessex based company that specialises in assisting businesses with fleets of up to one hundred vehicles with leasing, contract hire, outright purchase and general funding of any make of car, van or commercial vehicle.

Through a single point of contact we provide independent cost effective solutions for all your vehicle needs. We achieve significant financial savings by utilising our purchasing power with both vehicle manufacturers and a range of leading Leasing companies and banks. We work to save you time and money by finding the most cost effective solution for your needs.

This introduction briefly details our aims, pedigree and commitment to lasting and improving customer service and how we put these principals to work for our clients.

Summary

• Our independence is our strength we put it to work to save our clients time and money, by operating in partnership with 6 major leasing companies and are able to choose the most suitable products for our client’s at the most competitive price.
• We are a selected partner of Fleet Alliance, one of the strongest brokers in the industry.
• We fulfil all the needs of a client from short term 3 month rental packages for new employees right through to contract hire, leasing, purchasing and disposing of any make or model of car, van or truck.
• We offer the advantages of a small and dynamic unit where the satisfaction of our clients is paramount.
• By purchasing our vehicles more effectively we further increase our competitiveness. 

AutoProcurement Ltd is not tied to any manufacturer or finance institution. We work for you our customer to find the most competitive way of satisfying the needs of your business.

Our Aims

We strive to be a unique solution that saves our customers time and money. By combining a wide range of competitive products with an independent friendly and professional service we aim to be the natural choice for businesses running fleets of between 3 and 100 vehicles in the Wessex and surrounding regions.

Introduction

The business car and leasing market has changed quite dramatically over the last 10 years. Consolidation has meant the major leasing companies have become ever-larger and a leasing super league has emerged. There are now more than 4 companies operating fleets in excess of 100,000 vehicles but these organisations are cumbersome and have found it difficult to arrive at or even maintain basic levels of customer service for their clients.

A similar thing has happened in the new car dealer market, the manufacturers have pressurised dealers into providing multi million pound showrooms and offered the incentive of larger territories. The financial requirements of these changes have brought in the big dealer groups. They have acquired many of  the new territories supplanting the smaller customer focused owner operator organisations that relied on personal relationships and high levels of service. Like the big leasing companies the large dealer groups have found an acceptable level of customer service hard to achieve.

A new breed of company has developed to fill the gaps left in the wake of this consolidation process the vehicle finance broker. The vehicle finance broker operates along the same lines as other successful broker models such as insurance. The Autoprocurement concept is simple – find the best rate or price from the leading industry players and provide the right solution to our client. We incorporate these solutions with the highest levels of customer service a dynamic sales orientated company can give.

Our Pedigree

Autoprocurement Ltd was formed in 2003 with over 20 years experience in motor industry and was immediately selected as a partner in Fleet Alliance. Since beginning trading Autoprocurement has bought or funded in excess of £3,000,000 of vehicles on behalf of it clients and through our Fleet Alliance Partnership we are able to offer business funding products from 7 of the UK’s major leasing companies and banks.

Although Autoprocurement predominantly operates within the Wessex region supplying contract hire and leasing products we have established a client list that now extends throughout the UK and incorporates clients who also purchase and asset fund their vehicles. Our leasing client list includes Spirent Plc, Bowlplex Plc, Sunseeker International Ltd, Systemair Ltd, Stan Randell and Co Ltd, Triangle Group Ltd, Liftwise Ltd, Russell Leisure Ltd. Our clients who prefer to purchase some of their vehicles include Rocare / Rokill Group, Takeuchi (MFG) UK Ltd, Wayfarer Transit Systems Ltd and AIM Aviation (Jecco).

We have found that many businesses need flexibility and Autoprocurement offers this through the unique solution of a single point of contact. Whether a business wants to finance, lease or outright purchase it’s vehicles and regardless of whether they require a car, van or custom built truck.

Fleet Alliance has been trading since 1995 operating primarily in the south west of Scotland, through its partnership programme Fleet Alliance has expanded to source over 3,000 vehicles a year nationally and become one of the leading vehicle finance brokers in the UK. The Fleet Alliance client list includes Viacom Outdoor Ltd with a fleet of nearly 1,000 vehicles, Continental Airlines and Granada Television.

Financial Savings

In many cases the tender process can be flawed as it captures pricing from one leasing supplier at a given moment. It is not uncommon for leasing companies to massage the pricing in such a way that it fits in with the change cycle ensuring that prices are at there lowest at time of tender. Our business model means we check each of our funders every time, in effect we tender on a quote by quote basis. As contract hire is a service prices can vary considerably from one provider to the next up to and often over £70 per month.

Through Fleet Alliance, Autoprocurement Ltd is able to take advantage of the significant discount packages and special priced vehicles offered by the manufacturers and dealer groups. One of our main strengths is our ability to negotiate with the manufacturers for support terms. We are effectively treated as an end-user and not as a contract hire company – this allows us greater flexibility than standard contract hire companies. Generally speaking we buy more effectively than the major leasing companies as we are able to react to the market immediately, but crucially we enjoy the best of both worlds – when their terms are better we can take advantage of them.

The combined buying power of Fleet Alliance is such that we are in a position to build a user chooser model for your fleet, removing the need to commit to sole/dual badge supply policies to gain access to acceptable levels of discount.

Service Levels

One of the major challenges faced by our industry is the shear scale of many of the dealer groups and leasing companies. The drive for efficiency has created faceless call centre operations with the effect that you the client can find it difficult to access support and expertise when you need it.  Our model is quite different, and is driven by high levels of personal service delivered by people with full industry training and experience. Whether you are purchasing a car, custom building a commercial vehicle, sorting out servicing issues or simply booking demonstrators we provide an independent single point of contact that you can rely on to deal with your needs in a friendly and professional manner.