Download full-text PDF Read full-text Citations (4) Abstract Fleet management is a major concern for international humanitarian organizations because of (1) the magnitude of transportation related Figure 1: Transport demand management . Sustainable fleet management has implications for many areas of business management, for example: • Vehicle procurement and specification • Business travel policies • Company car allocation policies • Heath, safety and environmental policies • Logistics management From this, we can derive that most fleet management companies are in fact in the business of utilizing their fleets to perform mainly transport and logistics-related services. Typical fleet sizes range between smaller (10-50) to very large (in the thousands) fleets of various vehicles including cars, lorries, vans, drones , and others. Eqstra Fleet Management and Logistics is one of the leading fleet management companies in South Africa dedicated solely to the corporate fleet market. At Eqstra we realise that our customers are not only looking to finance their vehicles but more importantly the market is after a total fleet solution that delivers cost efficiencies and keeps 9 Management General: Senior leadership should endorse the overall vehicle operations and fleet management program. Focus should be given to the safety of employees, students, and the public. Benefits of a comprehensive program include wise stewardship of public resources, a good public image, conservation of budget, and responsibility to citizens. With access to all details in real-time, fleet managers can comprehensively control the business from one dashboard. Logistics companies can ensure that jobs are done faster and reduce dependency on manual and error-prone processes. The result is streamlined operations, reduced costs, better profitability, and improved customer satisfaction. The study sought to explore the impact of fleet management on logistics management in the retail sector of Zimbabwe. The study was guided by the objectives that included to determine the impact of fleet management on inventory control, to assess the impact of fleet management on material handling and to ascertain the impact of fleet management on distribution communication. Fleet management is a logistical task that concerns itself with the vehicles. Among are leasing, purchasing, maintaining, marketing, and tracking the cars while including human resource management, especially to all people employed in the sector. Logistics Management 5 2. Logistics Management The Council of Logistics Management defines Logistics as follows: "Logistics is part of the supply chain process that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption in logistics. Fleet management was an integral part of this process. As Luk Van Wassenhove, Academic Director of INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, points out, "Without (vehicle) fleets, humanitarian organisations cannot respond". Transportation is the cornerstone of humanitarian We propose that by managing the fleet as a whole at the national level and coordinating this upstream with the FMU (in central and hybrid models) and downstream with programs (in central, hybrid and decentralized models), IHO can improve field operations performance. The paper is organized as follows. We propose that by ma