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Total Cost of Ownership & Asset Life

Vehicle depreciation/CPK, insurance claims recovery, lease mileage exposure, and the asset decommission pipeline — the add-on's financial-metrics group.

What this group does

Total Cost of Ownership & Asset Life is the financial back-half of the vehicle lifecycle — depreciation and cost-per-km, insurance claims/accident recovery, lease contract mileage exposure, and the retirement/write-off pipeline. It uses the same 2-stage AI architecture as the other two operational groups, but unlike them, every gauge in this group is a monetary formula rather than a status-count percentage.

Vehicle Depreciation & TCO
Insurance Claims & Accident
Lease Contract Fleet
Asset Decommission

The shared 2-stage engine in this group

ScreenWhat Stage 1 searchesWhat Stage 2 diagnosesWhat you see in the result
Vehicle Depreciation & TCOSimilar assets across the ledgerTCO spike & replacement timingWhether a TCO spike was detected, a description of it, whether the economical tipping point was reached, a projected replacement date, a recommended action, and a summary
Insurance Claims & AccidentSimilar claims across the ledgerClaim settlement & loss recoveryWhether the fault assignment is disputed and why, whether there is a subrogation recovery opportunity and an estimate of it, whether deductible loss mitigation is possible, a recommended action, and a summary
Lease Contract FleetSimilar contracts across the ledgerExcess mileage & buyout optimizationWhether an excess mileage fee is projected and an estimate of it, an early termination penalty estimate, whether a buyout is recommended and why, a recommended action, and a summary
Asset DecommissionSimilar decommissions across the ledgerScrap vs. auction yieldWhether the asset is genuinely end-of-life ready and notes on that, a recommended disposal method, a projected yield comparison, whether there is an environmental-certificate risk, a recommended action, and a summary

Same pattern as the other two operational groups: no static industry-benchmark corpus exists in the app today — each Stage 1 search compares the current asset/claim/contract/decommission record against every other live record on the same screen; the Stage 2 result renders in the modal only and is never persisted.

1. Vehicle Depreciation & TCO

Purpose: Tracks acquisition cost, accumulated depreciation, current salvage value and operational lifetime expense per vehicle to compute a real cost-per-km (CPK).

Ledger columns

  • Vehicle id/plate/model, acquisition cost, accumulated depreciation, current salvage value
  • Operational lifetime expense, total distance (km)
  • Fuel / maintenance / insurance expenditure breakdown
  • Replacement readiness — optimal / monitor / replace immediately

Key action

Recalculate Asset Depreciation updates the accumulated depreciation, current salvage value, and replacement readiness.

ID format: TCO-YYYY-XXXX.

2. Insurance Claims & Accident

Purpose: Accident/insurance claim tracking — policy number, estimated repair cost, insurance payout, out-of-pocket deductible, fault ratio.

Ledger columns

  • Incident date, vehicle id/plate, driver name, policy number
  • Estimated repair cost, insurance payout, out-of-pocket deductible, fault ratio (%)
  • Claim status — draft / submitted / adjustor review / settled / rejected

Key action

Submit Claim to Insurer updates the policy number, repair cost, and fault ratio and moves the claim to Submitted status; only available on claims still in Draft status.

ID format: CLM-YYYY-XXXX.

3. Lease Contract Fleet

Purpose: Fleet leasing contracts — lessor company, monthly rate, contract mileage limit, current odometer, expiration date.

Ledger columns

  • Lessor company, vehicle id/plate, monthly rate
  • Contract mileage limit (km), current odometer (km), expiration date
  • Return status — active / near expiration / excess mileage risk / returned

Key action

Initiate Lease Handover / Renewal updates the return status; choosing renewal (Active) can also update the new expiration date.

ID format: LSE-YYYY-XXXX.

4. Asset Decommission

Purpose: End-of-life retirement/write-off process — retirement reason, disposal method, estimated/realized value, environmental certificate status.

Ledger columns

  • Vehicle id/plate/VIN, retirement reason — age/wear, severe damage, emissions non-compliant
  • Disposal method — public auction, scrap/recycled, part out
  • Estimated residual yield, final realized value
  • Environmental certificate status — pending / certified; status — pending approval / decommissioning active / written off

Key action

Finalize Asset Write-Off updates the realized value and environmental certificate status and moves the record to Written Off status; only available on records not already written off.

ID format: DEC-YYYY-XXXX.

Server routing (all 4 screens)

Same AI-engine routing as every other 2-stage screen in this add-on, logged and visible in Settings → Analytics.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I submit an insurance claim that’s already submitted?
The screen only offers Submit Claim to Insurer on claims still in Draft status — once submitted, the claim moves through Adjustor Review, Settled, or Rejected outside this action.
Can Finalize Asset Write-Off be undone?
No — it moves the record to Written Off status and the screen only allows triggering it on records that aren’t already in that state; there is no built-in reversal action.
Does Recalculate Asset Depreciation use a standard depreciation schedule (straight-line, declining balance)?
The action itself accepts the new depreciation/salvage values as payload from the caller — the specific depreciation methodology is a business decision made when calling the action, not a hardcoded formula inside it.
Why does this group’s gauges look different from the other 3 groups’ gauges?
Because this group tracks money, not operational status — cost-per-km, recovery ratios, mileage-consumption percentages and a retirement pipeline are all derived financial metrics rather than simple “% of records matching a status” counts.