Businesses are making cost-savings and improving fleet efficiencies as a result of accident bodyshops implementing ‘lean-flow’ management techniques.

While the impact of ‘lean-flow’ delivers benefits to Fleet Support Group customers it is also improving productivity at bodyshops that have so far implemented the programme.

According to FSG, average work time on a vehicle is about two hours per day.

However, following the implementation of the ‘lean-flow’ initiative at 10 of FSG’s network of 115 bodyshops, they are achieving five to six hours work per vehicle per day.

As a result, the ‘lean-flow’ approach, which has been developed by constraint management training experts I & J Munn, of Melton Mowbray, promises to deliver:

• A virtual 100% on-time delivery of repaired vehicles
• A shorter key-to-key process time
• A real productivity increase for bodyshops of 20-25%
• Increased throughput of cars of 15% or more.

“Our bodyshops that have so far introduced ‘lean-flow’ are getting vehicles back on the road faster than anyone else," said Julian Bailey-Watts, FSG’s technical services director.

"This massively reduces administration costs, means our fleet customers are getting their vehicles back quickly and that significantly increases customer satisfaction.“