Equipment Dealerships Technology Requirements Profile Equip-Soft in WTG

Equipment Dealerships Technology Requirements Profile Equip-Soft in WTG Manufacturing & Supply Chain News
By: TR Cutler
 
March 11, 2011 - PRLog -- Manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler recently profiled Equip-Soft in the current issue of WTG Manufacturing & Supply Chain News.  According to Cutler, equipment distributors run the gamut of industry sectors from Material Handling equipment, Agricultural Equipment, Pumps, Power Generation, Office Automation, Construction Equipment, Trucks and buses, Medical Equipment, Audio Visual Equipment, and Electronic Payment Devices.  Each of these businesses want to improve their bottom line through improved business efficiency; specifically, finding better ways to deal with vendors. Others are looking to grow their business by adopting additional product lines, or new geographies.
Acquisition is Driving Growth of Equipment Dealerships
Many equipment dealers create growth by expanding geographic reach via acquisition.  While capturing market share in this manner seems ideal, (if the price is right), the ability to integrate the technology solution of one operation into another, often presents special challenges.  A scalable implementation process is the only way to ensure that large, mid-size, and small equipment dealers are able to implement technology solutions without taking an eye off the business.
According to Grant Skinner, Vice President of Equip-Soft, “Rental equipment firms must manage their operations through complete management of short term and long term rentals, consolidated fleet management, instant availability of rentable equipment, easy setup of rental contracts and complete integration with Fixed Assets and Service Management.  For efficiencies it is also important that technology solutions for rental equipment firms provide easy handling of re-rents, exchanges, and returns.”

Supply Chain Cost Stripping
The supply chain demands driving most of the technological advances include the increasing requirement of eliminating costs throughout the supply chain. This cost stripping is having a direct impact on profitability. Skinner argues, “Often equipment dealerships are seeing no financial gain on the sales of equipment and must look to service contracts for margins and profitability. The ability to provide the quality and accurate data for customers becomes the primary if not sole source of profitability among many equipment dealers.”
Equip-Soft (www.equip-soft.com) helps equipment distributors manage growth and improve efficiencies through its rentals, service, sales, parts, and fleet management software.  Equip-Soft aligns the best technology with the best business processes.  From fleets to forklifts and trucks to power generators, Equip-Soft’s  Dealer Management Systems (DMS)  allow companies to lower the price point, integrate accounting with core fundamentals, achieve cost-savings, while permitting scalability for future growth.  Equipment distributors with a sales force, field technicians, providing supplies parts and short-term rentals, require better ways to monitor, manage, and maintain data.  Continuous improvement is a central principle with Equip-Soft; customers gain access to a product roadmap and upgrade path that allows them to find and make improvements in their businesses long after the initial implementation.  Partnering with Microsoft Dynamics means that all the benefits of working with an Industry specific software provider, with the backing of the largest provider of business software in the world.

Equip-Soft
www.equip-soft.com
Michelene Maguire
pr@equip-soft.com
905.361.2841
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Source:TR Cutler
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