Greater efficiency

Enhance the visibility and utilisation of your internal resources ensuring the appropriately qualified staff are allocated to the right tasks with Resource Planner.

Planning

Centralised resource
scheduling

Resource Planner allows you to define your employees, crew, sub-contractors or even vehicles as resources for a complete overview of your team. You can share the details across multiple depots, for easy resource booking and allocation to any job or task.

Resourcing

The right resource
for the right job

Enhance your company's professional reputation by satisfying your customers that the job is in the right hands by being aware of expiring certifications and qualifications. This will help ensure employees are always certified and their skill set is matched to the right tasks.

Forecasting

Accurate resource
forecasting

Predict all your future resource requirements avoiding any frustration with double booking and be confident that you can deliver your tasks and jobs on time and in the most efficient way.

MCS Resource Planner testimonial
We chose MCS-rm because of its comprehensive functionality and amazing flexibility. In addition we also really benefited from their expertise in adapting some parts of the software so it matched the exact requirements of our very niche offshore logistical operation.

Harran

Additional features

 

Resources tailored to your rental business

Employees, contractors, crew members or vehicles can be defined as your internal resources with Resource Planner. You can:

  • Set their individual attributes or qualifications.
  • Within your contract or works order you can define your tasks with time estimates ready for allocation. Travel time is also automatically calculated so that you can accurately plan jobs with ease.
  • Drag and drop the job in hand to the right resource.
  • Manage resource shift patterns more easily.

Instantly see your high demand resources

The graphical resource planner:

  • Gives you a full picture of resource availability.
  • Highlights resource shortfalls and identifies any resource gaps that need to be resolved.
  • Notifies you of lapsing employee certificates or qualifications.
  • Warns you when underqualified resources are allocated work outside their capability.

Explore our hire software solution

Some key features within MCS-rm rental software to enhance your business.

MCS CRM

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Manage your sales pipeline activity from enquiry through to final order. Undertake pro-active marketing campaigns to nurture your key client and prospect relationships.
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MCS workshop

Workshop

Ensure your hire equipment is certified and fit for hire. Keep accurate service records, plan regular maintenance and manage accidental equipment damage and loss.
Workshop >

mcs purchasing

Purchasing

Keep tight control of your expenditure on hire fleet, stock, spares and rehires and manage your preferred suppliers all in one easy to use system.
Purchasing >

dashboards

Dashboards & Business Intelligence

Gain meaningful insight into your rental data to help you analyse your strengths, weaknesses and understand changing hire trends to ensure you make the right strategic decisions for your rental business.
Reporting >

electronic trading

Electronic Trading

Send and receive customer, supplier and financial documents electronically for a labour-free solution to your paperwork processes.
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documentmanagement

Document Management

Go paperless and switch to electronic document storage to improve document retrieval times, reduce file storage space and revolutionise your customer service.
Document Management >

smartalerts

Smart Alerts

Receive customised proactive alerts so you can address issues the moment they arise ensuring that the highest standards are consistently met.
Smart Alerts >

resourceplanner

Resource Planner

Enhance the visibility and utilisation of your internal resources ensuring appropriately qualified staff are allocated to the right tasks.
Resource Planner >

onlineportal

Online Portal

Drive customer loyalty whilst enhancing brand awareness using the Online Portal, allowing your customers to quickly place orders and self-serve the information they need from you 24/7.
Online Portal >

telematics hub

MCS Telematics Hub

Say hello to full visibility of your telematics data. From stolen asset recovery to increased revenue, you’ll be able to take huge steps towards greater efficiency and improved productivity of your hire fleet.
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e-sign digital document signing

MCS E-Sign

Transform your hire quotes and contracts with MCS E-Sign, letting your customers easily sign documents at the click of a button.
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mobile tools

Mobile Rental Tools

Empower your workforce with our rental software mobile apps for your sales, transport, workshop and warehouse teams creating a paper-free process. With the ability to work both on-or-offline and gather real-time information from your workers on the move, you will become more responsive and consistently deliver on your promises.

Mobile Solutions >

MCS RM Mobile

RM Web

Manage your rental business wherever you are with everything you need all on the one device, helping you reach new heights of productivity.
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MCS CRM Mobile

CRM Web

Make your on-site client meetings more productive and access important customer information so you never miss an opportunity when on the move.
CRM Web >

MCS Transport Mobile

Transport Mobile

The paperless way to manage your transport logistics with optimised routes and real-time status updates from drivers in the field.
Transport Mobile >

MCS Picking Mobile

Picking

Empower your warehouse staff with MCS Picking, to accelerate the picking of equipment for your rental bookings, increasing the productivity of your workforce.
Picking >

MCS Workshop Mobile

Workshop Mobile

Streamline and manage your maintenance activity with an app to provide engineers with a paperless workflow and provide your back office with instant real-time information from their job status updates.
Workshop Mobile >

Cloud Solutions

Cloud Rental Solutions

Concentrate on running your rental company, safe in the knowledge that your hire business is always protected, your data is secure and your IT infrastructure is managed by professionals.

Learn more about our Cloud Solutions

At a glance

  • Secure, easy access to your hire data from any location
  • Free your in-house IT resources and reap cost efficiencies
  • Fixed monthly fee
  • Protection for your vital business data 
  • Fast implementation
  • A hire software solution that is scalable
  • Ready access to experienced IT support consultants

Get in touch

To discover how MCS-rm rental software solutions can empower your hire business, call us on +61 (2) 9477 1355 or use our enquiry form.

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