SmartEquip and Alert Management Systems to Integrate Software Platforms
SmartEquip and Alert Management Systems have announced a strategic partnership to integrate their respective software platforms. The partnership is expected to provide Alert customers a significant reduction in equipment operating costs.
"We are pleased to extend and connect our network directly into the workflow of participating Alert users,” said Fernando Pinera, SmartEquip president and chief operating officer. "Our companies share a steadfast dedication to serving customers with superior software and this integration of technologies will deliver enhanced efficiency to users with a decrease in wrench time, less overtime and down equipment and increased profitability.”
“We’re thrilled to offer Alert users the opportunity to seamlessly interface with SmartEquip,” added Mary Crosslin, co-president and chief operating officer of Alert. “Our integration will offer Alert users the ability to connect with SmartEquip in the work order process and create a purchase order if the part isn’t in stock. Savvy equipment rental operations will save countless hours and potential mistakes by automating a once time-consuming and error-prone process. We’re further delighted to offer this integration as a baseline feature of Alert.”
Founded in 1976, Alert Management Systems Corp. is a leading supplier of Windows-based rental management solutions to single store and multi-store rental operations across North America. Visit www.alert-ims.com. The SmartEquip Network is the leading global standard for equipment lifecycle support and procurement. The SmartEquip Network currently supports more than 150 OEM brands, with more than 40,000 users across more than 4,000 locations across North America and Europe.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.