MCS Africa ltd
Business Management in Sandton

With MCS-rm technology, you gain maximum flexibility, with the broadest choice of functionality and integration options. From a single depot to a multinational rental business, offers everything required to manage, MCS-rm, control and improve the efficiency and profitability of your hire operation.

The ability to co-ordinate the hire activities of all four companies within the H.E Group. Tighter management of quotation processes as customer information and records are securely stored for shared access. Cost savings through inter-depot transfer of expensive equipment which opens up access to a larger, combined stock list. HE needed to replace its previous UNIX-based hire application with a comprehensive Window-based system capable of co-ordinating the activities of all four companies within the H.E. It needed to deliver a level of performance that would keep up with its expanding operation. The Invoice Register lets us track and monitor all invoices received from suppliers, we are quickly able to create a report and view the detail which saves time and resolves issues quicker. The Purchase Ledger runs more efficiently than before. It takes less time looking for information, more detail is available and paying suppliers has never been easier. MCS-rm was a perfect Integrated fit and gave us the ability to tailor the MCS-crm functionality to our requirements. We now capture and input all customer information much quicker. This gives our users an up-to-date profile of a customer very quickly and enables them to make better judgements when negotiating a hire deal. It allows them to apply different hire rates to the contract and structure it according to their customers’ preference. Useful, in-depth, flexible reporting, such as Aged Debtors, Invoice Register and Document History reports, which users find fast and easy to run whenever needed. With MCS CRM, they can store and share the information from one central place and allows better communication between different depots and teams. Throughout our collaboration, MCS has been most helpful. They know how we operate our systems and can usually resolve any issues in a speedy manner. If we have any issues, they are always willing to investigate and advise. MCS-rm just makes life easier for the people at the top and also for day-to-day users. Increased equipment visibility by consolidating all rental assets into one shared software solution, enhancing product awareness and customer communications. Improved project profitability by reviewing budgeted job costs and times against actuals for every engineering task undertaken. Procomm had grown quickly in a short space of time, despite many of its routine processes being undertaken in an old-fashioned labour intensive way. In a bid to automate its manual processes, Procomm Site Services researched the market in 2013 for rental management software solutions. As we have got such high value assets on the books, it is really important that we know where they are, who’s got them, when they went out and when they are due back, what it cost and when we bought them. MCS-rm handles this with ease and we know if each asset is well utilised and generating the right level of income. We track all costs against each project and we expect to be able to see planned time versus actual time taken for each job along with cost summaries. With this transparency, we can instantly see how profitable each project is. Invoices can now be matched with purchase orders in MCS-rm at the touch of a button in the currency of choice. By automating this process alone, we have achieved a 66% reduction in the time taken to match purchase orders to invoices at month end. See a consolidated view of all its customer, equipment assets, quotes, contracts, purchase orders and invoices in its MCS-rm system. Monitor and track the history of any asset throughout its lifecycle. We felt MCS-rm was the most future proof solution and ensured that we wouldn’t have to run through a major software upgrade in the near future.