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    BigRentz Launches Automated Bulk Order System for Enhanced Rental Activity

    April 23, 2019
    BigRentz has launched a proprietary automated bulk order system that enables national construction and maintenance companies to rent construction equipment more easily and accurately for planned maintenance or remodeling projects across the country.

    BigRentz has launched a proprietary automated bulk order system that enables national construction and maintenance companies to rent construction equipment more easily and accurately for planned maintenance or remodeling projects across the country.

    Previously, specialty construction companies would come to BigRentz with lists of future projects with similar rental needs. BigRentz manually inputted these bulk orders consisting of 50 to 250 customer locations that required the same heavy equipment at each site, such as forklifts and scissorlifts, with only the date and location changing. The manual process was error prone that resulted in up to a 4-percent error rate among orders that could take hours to complete. Now with the new bulk order system, bulk orders are processed all at once, with hundreds accurately inputted and confirmed in as little as 10 minutes.

    “We are always striving to improve processes and customer satisfaction, so when we were finding errors in a labor-intensive process, we knew there had to be a better solution,” said Liam Stannard, chief technology officer at BigRentz. “BigRentz’s team of engineers developed a new program that automated the process. Since its launch earlier this month, we’ve experienced 100-percent accuracy. This takes our service to a new level.”

    National accounts can submit their bulk orders to BigRentz the same way they have – usually in an Excel file via the EasyRentz customer portal or emailing their account representative. A BigRentz operations representative ensures the required fields are complete for quality assurance, and the BigRentz bulk order system takes care loading the orders and sourcing the equipment through QuickRentz, another BigRentz proprietary system that enables our suppliers to claim deals via email or text message with the click of a button.

    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.