Carlo Vanoli: Four Subsidiaries, One Platform

One hundred years of track construction. One platform for everything.

Carlo Vanoli AG has been building rail infrastructure across the DACH region for over a century. With operations spread across four subsidiaries in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the complexity of managing a mixed fleet of machines, vehicles, and equipment had outgrown manual processes. The data existed. The visibility did not.

The answer was clear: consolidate everything onto a single telematics platform. That platform is Commander.

From fragmented systems to a single source of truth

Before Commander, Vanoli’s operations relied on a patchwork of legacy tools and manual records. Locating a machine meant a phone call. Billing hours meant cross-referencing spreadsheets. Integrating with SAP meant manual data entry, with all the errors that come with it.

Today, nearly 400 telematics devices are active across the Vanoli fleet. Operating hours, locations, and utilisation data flow automatically into Commander. From there, a direct SAP interface handles the billing side, without manual intervention.

“A major advantage for us is the automatic tracking and billing of hours for our clients, as well as the seamless integration into SAP via the interface with COMMANDER.” — Adrian Birchler, Workshop Manager Carlo Vanoli AG

What Commander does for Vanoli every day

• Live location and status of nearly 400 devices across the entire fleet
• Automatic operating hour recording for accurate client billing
• SAP integration: data flows directly, no manual transfer required
• Performance monitoring across the full fleet, visible to all levels of the organisation
• Streamlined workflows from construction site to back office

100+ users. Every department. Every level.

Adoption is the true test of any software rollout. At Carlo Vanoli AG, over 100 people use Commander daily, spanning operations, workshop, management, and billing. That breadth of use is not incidental. It reflects how central the platform has become to how the company runs.

The result is not just efficiency. It is informed decision-making at every level, from the workshop manager scheduling maintenance to the CFO reconciling fleet costs with SAP. Master your data. Decide with confidence.

Track construction demands precision. So does telematics.

Rail infrastructure work has zero tolerance for error. Machines are expensive. Downtime is costly. Billing disputes damage client relationships. Commander eliminates the guesswork: every hour is recorded, every asset is located, every cost is attributed correctly.

For a company with a century of engineering precision behind it, the transition to digital fleet management was not a disruption. It was a natural extension of the same values.