The crane rental business is based on the rental company’s ability to deliver quality equipment on time, offer flexible options, competitive rates, and overall good service. While this is true from the customer’s point of view, imagine what goes on in the backend of the rental outfit to ensure that they can meet customer’s expectations while still maintaining profitability. And when you are talking about heavy equipment like cranes and their rental services, the operations become even more complex.
The rental operations for cranes become more complex when you add the technician skills that are required to transport and operate cranes. Often, crane rentals must factor in operators and resources to manage the project onsite to ensure that the asset is in good condition and used optimally.
Here are the various steps that you need to consider, to plan real-time transport and streamline workflows for crane rental operations:
Location of the cranes: One of the main concerns while Schedule of crane rentals: You also need the planned
managing the crane rental business is to ensure that you schedule of crane requirements at different sites.
have the real-time location of the cranes. Having this With the market requirements being so volatile,
information on hand is vital to ensure that you can plan there are possibilities that time schedules may
for the upcoming requirements. change onsite, and you need an update of that.
Service technician and operator schedules: Cranes are Transportation and logistics: Since cranes are expensive
highly technical and specialized equipment that needs and of specific types, your crane solution has to be
to be handled, moved, and operated by technicians and able to plan the transportation and logistics aspect
qualified operators. To that end, you need to keep tabs of their movement keeping in mind crane requirements
on their schedules as well. and availability of personnel.
Spares parts inventory and service: The composition of Maintenance logs: With specialized and complicated
a crane is made up of many components and spare parts. equipment like cranes, the maintenance has to be on
These can be not only expensive but also difficult to source time and meet quality standards. An optimum crane
and procure. The inventory aspect also ties in with the rental solution will have to alert the relevant people
service requirements of the cranes. on time to ensure that maintenance is done on time.
Change in customer requirements: When you talk about Invoicing and billing: When we talk of business, then
managing the rental of special equipment like cranes, the invoicing and billing aspect has a direct impact on
then you must be prepared to meet the way customers profitability. A rental solution must support this aspect
keep changing their requirements. Whether it is cutting the to ensure that you meet your revenue targets, tighten
lease period short, extending it, change in location or the the collection cycle, and rewards those customers
type of equipment required, the rental solution has to be who pay on time. Tracking usage and monitoring
prepared to meet all these requirements. can help you ensure the health of the machine.
We are sure that by now you are aware of the vital role that your rental solution can ease many of the steps in your operations. Whether it is on-field updates, approvals and changes on the move, monitoring of assets, logistical updates or service and maintenance, the rental solution has an important role to play. On-cloud rental solutions with mobile apps enabled are the way forward.
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Eric Van Hofwegen
Ankit Bhadana
Cor Tiemens
