MCS can help you to overcome the business challenges faced by hire companies efficiently and cost effectively.
We have years of experience of offering our hire management solution to the plant, powered access and generator hire sectors and have many customer references.
Fast facts for plant hirers:
MCS-rm manages the quotations, contract processing and invoicing of your plant, powered access and generator hires. This offers time and labour savings as well as improved accuracy, faster throughput and increased revenue.
Make better informed decisions about your products 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, reduces hire conflicts and helps you improve performance and revenue.
A Daily Diary lets your depot teams view the day’s deliveries, collections & returns and highlights overdue activities. This increases efficiency and reduces errors.
MCS-rm automates your rehires process – every rehire transaction can be analysed in terms of its profitability. This improved understanding helps you maximise resources and revenue.
Safety and operating instructions are printed (or emailed) with your hire contract or delivery note to ensure that the customer has the relevant information.
Capture meter readings on and off hire to calculate usage. Compare usage to pre-agreed limits per working day, week or month and trigger excess charges automatically if machines are over worked.
Define service, inspection and test intervals by meter usage or calendar month and automatically trigger service, inspection and test warnings, including when plant is on site.
Scheduled Maintenance Alerts ensures your rental plant are not booked out on a contract when a service is imminent, and a quick works order can be generated should the equipment break down while in use, ensuring speedy and efficient on-site repair. In addition the Workshop and Maintenance module keeps equipment in optimum working order and schedules and tracks all repairs and modifications – this reduces breakdowns and improves your plant hire's utilisation, profitability and stock expenditure.
Gain a complete picture of your financing and depreciation costs for your plant and equipment to help you fully understand your asset costs and value. Helps _amazeyou reduce capital outlay and forecast future cash-flow.
If you have trackers on your plant, take advantage of MCS-rm’s link to your satellite tracking provider’s software. See more quickly exactly where your equipment is and access useful information around your equipment’s recent and current usage and locations.
Searchable specifications allow the user to select specific equipment by picking precise machine attributes and capabilities.
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 provides 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 automatically 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 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.
In addition, Report Scheduler automates the transmission of reports to predefined recipients at specified intervals via email or SMS text message.
Business Intelligence tools analyse key business information visually by using Dashboards and Microsoft Excel pivot tables – you'll be better placed to make the right management decisions.
Customer Web Portal is a secure, customisable online website that offers customers access to important contract, invoice and account information. Let them browse an online equipment catalogue to hire or buy, obtain quotes and raise on-hire and off-hire requests. This empowers customers and enhances business performance, productivity and revenue.
MCS Financials is an affordable and highly comprehensive integrated financial solution that handles day-to-day accounting activities and financial management reports. Seamless integration paths to best of breed Financials: Sage 50 and 200, IRIS Exchequer, SAP Business One, Pegasus Opera, Quickbooks etc.
To find out more about MCS-rm in your sector, call us on +44 (0)1628 828000 or use our enquiry form.
View Nixon Hire Case Study
Web: www.nixonhire.co.uk
Country: United Kingdom
Industry: Hire sectors including plant and tool, accommodation, toilets, event hire ...
Products: MCS-rm with Workshop & Maintenance, Purchase Order Processing, Bulk Transmission of Invoicing, Smart Alerts, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Web Portal, MCS Financials
View John F Hunt Demolition Group Case Study
Web: www.johnfhunt.co.uk
Country: United Kingdom
Industry: Plant and tool, generators and lifting equipment hire
Products: MCS-rm with MCS Financials
View Power Plant Hire Case Study
Web: www.powerplanthire.co.uk
Country: United Kingdom
Industry: Plant hire
Products: Core MCS-rm, Workshop & Maintenance, Equipment Financing, Report Writer, MCS-bi,Sage Integration
View H E Services Case Study
Web: www.heservices.co.uk
Country: United Kingdom
Industry: Excavator hire services
Products: MCS-rm with Purchase Ordering, Workshop & Maintenance,
MCS-crm, MCS-fin, MCS-bi
View MEMS Power Generation Case Study
Web: www.memsgen.co.uk
Country: United Kingdom
Industry: Power Generator hire
Products: MCS-rm with Contract Management, Assets, Invoicing, Stock, Purchase Ordering, Transport Manager, Workshop & Maintenance,
Proof of Delivery, Report Writer, MCS-crm, MCS-web
View Plant & Site Services Case Study
Web: www.psshire.com
Country: United Kingdom
Industry: Plant and equipment hire to the pipeline industry
Products: MCS-rm with Purchase Ordering, Workshop & Maintenance,
Report Writer, MCS-web, MCS-fin with Sage Integration
View Fork Rent plc
Web: www.4ajcb.com
Country: United Kingdom
Industry: Plant hire (self-drive)
Products: Core MCS-rm with Bulk Transmission of Invoicing, Reporting, Business Intelligence, Purchase Order Processing, Workshop & Maintenance and Sage 50 Accounts integration.