Many operated plant and crane hirers have relied on MCS software to overcome their business challenges.
Our operated plant and crane hire software solution moulds to the way you work, helping you to increase profitability and improve customer service - vital in a competitive economic climate.
Fast facts for operated plant and crane hirers:
MCS-rm manages the quotations, contract processing and invoicing of your operated plant and crane hires. This offers time and labour savings as well as improved accuracy, faster throughput and increased revenue.
Make better informed decisions about your equipment and increase your profitability – MCS-rm tracks all your hire fleet to give an up-to-date picture of availability and location.
The Allocation Chart gives you a colour-coded visual guide, enabling you to plan your hire fleet utilisation, reduce hire conflicts and improve performance and revenue.
Hire out multiple operators with your plant and mix operated and non-operated machines on one contract. You can also apply an unlimited number of timesheet rates and charge by quantity and/or trips, loads, lifts etc.
Process timesheets per day, week or project, you can also choose to present time-based charges per day or summarised per week by rate per period.
A daily diary lets your depot teams view the day's deliveries, returns and collections in your operated plant and crane hire business and highlights overdue activities – this increases efficiency and reduces errors.
Safety and operating instructions are printed (or emailed) with your hire contract or delivery note to ensure that the customer has the relevant information.
The Workshop and Maintenance module keeps machines in optimum working order and schedules and tracks all repairs and modifications – this reduces breakdowns and improves your hire utilisation, profitability and stock expenditure. Scheduled Maintenance Alerts ensures your machines are not booked out on a contract when a service is imminent, and a quick works order can be generated should the equipment breakdown while in use, ensuring speedy and efficient on-site repair.
Searchable specifications allow the user to select specific equipment by picking precise machine attributes and capabilities.
Having a complete picture of your financing costs for your machines helps you fully understand your asset costs and value. You’ll be in a strong position to reduce capital outlay and forecast future cash flow.
The Today Page gives a snapshot of current hire activities and enables you to drill down to access more detail – this ensures you meet your customer commitments.
The Revenue Guide allows you to see expected future revenue and forecasts and act quickly before month end or an invoicing run.
Fully configurable Smart Alerts provide an early warning system for any pre-defined hire issues such as hire rates negotiated below a certain threshold – you'll improve your responsiveness and save time and manpower to help reduce costs and increase revenue.
Transport Manager helps you manage all delivery and collections by planning and optimising driver routes – this reduces transport costs, and driver accuracy improves customer satisfaction.
Proof of Delivery scans and electronically files signed delivery/collection notes and other documentation with the contract, to be viewed or emailed in the event of a query. This resolves invoice queries and improves cash flow.
Purchase Order Processing helps you to understand your complete expenditure by tracking purchasing costs.
CRM provides a fully integrated customer and prospect database, with quotation, marketing campaign management and lead monitoring. This boosts sales and marketing and supports customer retention.
Use many standard reports provided or create your own to analyse key hire data.
To find out more about our Operated Plant and Crane Hire solution, call us on +44 (0)1628 828000 or use our enquiry form.
View Baldwins Crane Hire Ltd Case Study
Web: www.baldwinscranehire.com
Country: United Kingdom
Industry: Crane hire
Products: MCS-rm with Sage 50 Accounts integration