European Cat Rental Giant Zeppelin Rental Joins SmartEquip Network
Zeppelin Rental, a leading European provider of construction support and equipment rental services, has begun implementation of SmartEquip technology for use across all of its 120 locations. By utilizing SmartEquip’s Enterprise application, Zeppelin Rental, one of the world’s largest Cat Rental Store programs, will automate equipment service and repair processes, increase technician productivity, eliminate spare part order errors, and further improve rental fleet uptime and availability.
The integration with the company’s rental management, purchasing, and financial systems will enable Zeppelin Rental to leverage SmartEquip integration with the manufacturers and dealers of almost 400 equipment brands from Europe and North America, resulting in efficiencies for both Zeppelin Rental and its suppliers. The company expects to conduct virtually all of its spare parts transactions with dealers and manufacturers by the middle of 2019.
“The intelligently automated distribution of service support and parts documentation by our suppliers, directly into the workflow of our service technicians will produce further improvements in service cost and fleet availability across our operation,” said Martin Sebestyén, Zeppelin Rental’s head of rental and fleet management. “In addition, the platform will provide suppliers with instant reductions in the cost of supporting our fleet, and an improved efficiency in supplying spare parts. This results in a win-win efficiency improvement for all of us.”
“Partnering with an industry leader like Zeppelin Rental is a tremendous step for our company,” said Alexander Schuessler, SmartEquip founder and president of the company’s International Group. “More than half the suppliers on the SmartEquip Network today are active in the highly dynamic European rental market. Zeppelin Rental’s membership will not only accelerate the current rate of adoption, but also increase the benefits to dealers and manufacturers who are already active on the network.”
SmartEquip is expected to go live at Zeppelin Rental during the first quarter of 2019.
About the Author
Michael Roth
Editor
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.