Cummins Selects Orion Software for North American Distributors

Oct. 14, 2011
Cummins Inc. last week selected Orion Software as a rental management software provider for its North American distributors. Orion Software will complete the implementation by year-end 2011.

Cummins Inc. last week selected Orion Software as a rental management software provider for its North American distributors. Orion Software will complete the implementation by year-end 2011.

With more than $13 billion in sales in 2010, Cummins Distribution Business Unit will use Orion Software’s Sirius Pro to assist in the management of the power generation rental business across its 16 independent distributors throughout North America.

“After reviewing a range of different rental management solutions, we are pleased with Sirius Pro’s set of features and have been extremely happy with Orion Software as a business partner,” said Lee Bledsoe, Cummins rental business manager, North America. “Sirius Pro is enabling us to respond to customers’ needs more quickly, while providing improved visibility to fleet utilization and operating expense performance. The operational data provided by the Sirius Pro software will certainly play an important role as distributors make rental fleet investment decisions in the future.”

Orion Software is a provider of rental management software for the global rental market. From its inception in 1986, Orion Software has developed and distributed its flagship product Sirius Pro, a full-feature software solution designed to manage the entire range of rental business processes using industry best practices.

“Orion Software has a long-standing history of providing turnkey solutions for companies like Cummins who offer short and long-term rental contracts,” said Patrice Boivin, president and CEO of Orion Software.

Cummins Inc., headquartered in Columbus, Ind., designs, manufactures, and services diesel engines, power generation equipment and related components.