As MCS-rm is prevalent in many plant and tool hire businesses and underpins their critical business systems.
Therefore it is hardly surprising that many internal plant hirers also use MCS solutions to automate their business processes and this has enabled them to become more efficient and maximise their asset utilisation and revenue.
Fast facts for internal hirers:
MCS-rm manages the project needs, contract processing and costing/invoicing of your plant hires. This offers time and labour savings as well as improved accuracy, faster throughput and increased revenue.
Set up each site up as a project to speed up contract processing, and end of month costing/invoicing can be consolidated by project.
Make better informed decisions about your products and increase your profitability - MCS-rm tracks all your plant 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.
A Daily Diary lets your depot teams view the day's deliveries, collections and returns in your internal plant 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 notes to ensure that the customer has the relevant information.
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 breakdown 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 the utilisation of your plant hire, 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 you 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 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 plant hire delivery and collections by planning and optimising driver routes – this reduces transport costs, while 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.
In addition, Report Scheduler automates the transmission of reports to pre-defined 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 websites to offer 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 – an affordable and highly comprehensive integrated financial solution that handles day-to-day accounting activities and financial management reports. Seamless integration to best-of-breed Financials: Sage 50 and Sage 200, IRIS Exchequer, SAP Business One, Pegasus Opera, Quickbooks etc.
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