Dramatic growth at Hagerstown, MD-based Bowman Sales and Equipment – from 6,000 to 30,000 rental units, 7 to 31 branches, and 650%+ revenue increase, between 2010 - 2012 –would not have been achievable without investment in the Equip-Soft software system, according to the company’s CFO.

Allentown, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/07/2013 -- Equip-Soft software and services have had a huge positive financial impact on Bowman Sales & Equipment (doing business as Bowman Trailer Leasing), which leases, rents, sells and services over-the-road trailers, storage trailers and decommissioned sea containers in 14 states. Bowman has soared from 7 to 31 branches, 6,000 to 30,000+ rental units, and massive gains on the books. "There is no way we could have achieved 650% growth in revenue in two years and maintained control without Equip-Soft," says CFO Stephen Walker.

The Equip-Soft system has met all Bowman's requirements, says Walker, including a reliable technology platform (Microsoft Dynamics), complete fleet rental and service management, an integrated financial system, the ability to support customer service requirements, and easy, fast reporting and analysis. "Equip-Soft is the central nervous system of our business," he notes.

The Equip-Soft system went live in five months, with 70 users – the tight timeframe due to a major acquisition that doubled the size of Bowman. "Equip-Soft and our team got it all done – from developing functional design specifications, system design and configuration, data conversion, staff training, pilot testing, and implementation," says Walker.

"We are leveraging Equip-Soft technology to grow," he notes. "The only other choice is to add a lot of staff and put bureaucracy in place; instead now we just add trailers."

David Pilz, CEO of IndustryBuilt Software, parent company of Equip-Soft, says "Technology always makes a big difference in the effectiveness of equipment distributors to outstrip their competition – but the Bowman Sales and Equipment example really drives home how much cost savings and improved workforce and process efficiencies can result from the use of Equip-Soft! We are thrilled to work alongside Bowman in their continuing, extraordinary success."

About Equip-Soft
Equip-Soft delivers software and services for the equipment distribution industry to help improve efficiencies in rentals, service, sales, parts, and fleet management aspects of distribution to improve relationships with customers and vendors. Equip-Soft software and services are powered by the fastest growing ERP platform in the world, Microsoft Dynamics, and feature industry-specific functionality. Equip-Soft is an IndustryBuilt Software company. For more information, visit equip-soft.com and on Twitter @Equip_Soft.

About Bowman Sales and Equipment
Founded in 1972, Bowman Sales and Equipment (dba as Bowman Trailer Leasing) is a regional provider of road trailers, storage trailers, and sea containers. Headquartered in Hagerstown, MD the company has branches in Richmond, VA, Baltimore, MD, Charlotte, NC, Birmingham, AL, Atlanta, GA, Altoona, PA and Allentown, PA. They serve the needs of the transportation industry with 48' and 53' over-the-road trailers, as well as on-site storage with sea containers and storage trailers that are used in construction, manufacturing, and retail. For more information, visit bowmanleasing.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

The Lilly Company has chosen Equip-Soft to replace legacy Minitrac software at 10 locations across Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas. Based in the booming distribution center of Memphis, the almost 100-year-old company carries Toyota Industrial Equipment, Clark, Linde, Doosan, Combilift and other lines of equipment.

Allentown, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/07/2013 -- Equip-Soft software and services have been chosen by leading forklift and material handling equipment distributor, The Lilly Company, which has 10 locations in Memphis, Jackson, Knoxville and Kingsport, TN, Richland and Biloxi, MS, Jonesboro, AR, and Madison and Birmingham, AL. The private company, founded in 1919 and headquartered in the booming distribution center of Memphis, sells, rents, services, repairs and provides parts for several lines of forklifts, lift trucks, aerial work platforms, booms, carriers, batteries, chargers, containers, racks and bins, and dock equipment, including Toyota Industrial Equipment, Clark, Linde, Doosan and Combilift.

The Lilly Company, a fourth-generation family owned and operated business, was using Minitrac software for more than 15 years, a system they have outgrown. They looked at 8 ERP vendors – including DIS and Dysel – and "the Equip-Soft team was simply the best," says Carla Hampton, Controller, The Lilly Company. "The software meets our criteria for better reporting, reduction in duplication in business processes, better quoting and forecasting, more accurate inventory tracking, and other functionality."

The 185-employee company will initially roll out Equip-Soft for 70 users, as well as 92 users for the MobileFrame platform integrated with Equip-Soft for simple configuration of mobile applications for field service and sales personnel. The implementation also includes the Microsoft Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) system.

"The Lilly Company is such an important presence in material handling distribution in the southern U.S., as well as being one the largest Toyota industrial equipment dealerships in the country," says David Pilz, CEO, IndustryBuilt Software, the parent company of Equip-Soft. "We couldn't be more pleased to know their success will be further augmented by Equip-Soft optimizing their business processes and maximizing efficiencies at all their 10 locations."

The Lilly Company is the second Toyota dealership to purchase Equip-Soft in 2012. The other Toyota dealership is WD Matthews, a leading distributor of material handling and construction equipment in ME, NH, MA, and VT which replaced its RMI Corporation software with Equip-Soft to optimize all aspects of their business – rentals, servicing, parts and sales.

About Equip-Soft
Equip-Soft delivers software and services for the equipment distribution industry to help improve efficiencies in rentals, service, sales, parts, and fleet management aspects of distribution to improve relationships with customers and vendors. Equip-Soft software and services are powered by the fastest growing ERP platform in the world, Microsoft Dynamics, and feature industry-specific functionality. Equip-Soft is an IndustryBuilt Software company. For more information, visit equip-soft.com and on Twitter @Equip_Soft.

About The Lilly Company
Founded in 1919 by Thomas Lilly – grandfather of the current Chairman of the Board, Joe Clark, and great-grandfather of company President, Wade Clark– the company has evolved from a brokerage house of medicinal oils, to ice crusher/conveyor manufacturer, to distributor of lift trucks, expanding into diverse lines of forklifts and material handling equipment including Toyota Industrial Equipment, Clark, Linde, Doosan and Combilift. The Lilly Company has acquired or opened locations in Memphis, Jackson, Knoxville and Kingsport, TN, Richland and Biloxi, MS, Jonesboro, AR, and Madison and Birmingham, AL. For more information, visit lillyforklifts.com and on Twitter @LillyForklifts.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Material handling distributor, Cardinal Carryor, and sister company Cardinal Integrated Systems, which handles warehouse planning, installation and engineering services, both located in Louisville, KY, have selected the Equip-Soft system to automate processes and improve business efficiencies, with plans for mobile applications for their field service technicians.

Allentown, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/20/2012 -- The implementation of Equip-Soft software and services at two Kentuckiana equipment distribution sister companies has resulted in significant cost savings through the automation of processes within rentals, sales, parts, and servicing divisions. Cardinal Carryor and Cardinal Integrated Systems, both in Louisville, KY, are realizing benefits from the Equip-Soft enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, including:

- Enough productivity improvements to reduce labor costs in the parts and accounting departments – processing more orders using fewer staff.
- Reporting available within Equip-Soft has given the company visibility into business information and KPIs that they never had before.
- Their service vans are treated as "warehouses" within the ERP system, so tracking of inventory in all the vans is greatly improved over previous manual processes.
- The availability tree within the Rentals module makes it easy for non-rental employees, such as sales people, to easily see what equipment is available or not.
- The company has full assurance that their ERP investment can be leveraged for as many years as needed.
- Integration of the Equip-Soft system with other Microsoft products used by the company, such as Excel and Outlook, allows for ease of use by employees.
- Ability to further extend functionality to the company's 50 field service technicians via integration with MobileFrame technology.

Equip-Soft, an IndustryBuilt Software company, has been implementing equipment distributor ERP systems for customers in the material handling, power equipment, oil and gas, and mining equipment distribution industries across North America since 2005. Equip-Soft is built on the powerful Microsoft Dynamics platform – the world's fastest growing ERP – with added industry-specific functionality built on top by equipment distribution professionals on the Equip-Soft team.

"We were thrilled that Brad Baker and his team chose Equip-Soft over other software, including DIS, Minitrac and EBS," says David Pilz, president and CEO, IndustryBuilt. "Cardinal Carryor is the kind of innovative, driven company we enjoy helping grow, and the feeling is mutual: Brad has been Equip-Soft's number-one customer reference for a while now."

"I recommend Equip-Soft all the time - more than the software, it's the people there," says Brad Baker, VP of Cardinal Carryor, and CEO of Cardinal Integrated Systems. "When Equip-Soft tells me something will get done, it gets done… I always feel like I am their most important customer."

About Cardinal Carryor
Based in Louisville, KY, Cardinal Carryor and Cardinal Integrated Systems provide full-line, full-material handling equipment parts, rentals, sales and servicing as well as other aspects of installation, project management, and industrial engineering services to the Kentuckiana region (Indiana and Kentucky). Founded in 1947, the third-generation family owned and operated business is the only authorized Clark forklift dealership in Kentuckiana, as well as an authorized Crown equipment distributor. For more information, visit cardinalcarryor.com or @cardinalcares on Twitter.

About Equip-Soft
Equip-Soft delivers software and services for the equipment distribution industry to help improve efficiencies in rentals, service, sales, parts, and fleet management aspects of your business to improve relationships with your customers and vendors. Industrial equipment distributors working with Equip-Soft reduce implementation timeframes and implementation risks often associated with ERP. Equip-Soft software and services are powered by the fastest growing ERP platform in the world, Microsoft Dynamics, and features industry-specific functionality. For more information, visit http://equip-soft.com or @equip_soft on Twitter.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

W.D. Matthews Machinery Company, the leading dealership of full-service materials handling and construction equipment in New England, has replaced business software from RMI with Equip-Soft to manage equipment rentals, sales, service, parts, and equipment and assets consisting of multiple lines including Toyota equipment.

Allentown, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/12/2012 -- Equip-Soft is the business software system of choice for W.D. Matthews Machinery Company, the leading dealership of materials handling and construction equipment across Maine, New Hampshire, central Massachusetts and Eastern Vermont. The Auburn, ME-based distributor sells, rents and fully services forklifts, aerial lifts, industrial vehicles and warehouse equipment from Toyota, Clark, Doosan, Genie, JLG, Lull, and Manitou.

W.D. Matthews made the switch from its legacy software from RMI Corporation to Equip-Soft because "the technology of Equip-Soft and Microsoft Dynamics is well-positioned to help us optimize all aspects of our business – rentals, service, parts and sales," says Jonathan Greven, General Manager and Treasurer at W.D. Matthews. He adds, "As a family business, we pride ourselves on exceptional customer service and long-lasting relationships with our business partners; we were impressed by Equip-Soft's similar focus."

David Pilz, CEO, IndustryBuilt Software, the parent company of Equip-Soft, notes that "W.D. Matthews is a great addition to our customer family because they manage multiple equipment lines, multiple locations and hundreds of employees across four states, which is a great showcase for Equip-Soft's capabilities." Pilz adds that the W.D. Matthews win puts Equip-Soft in a position to really get engaged with other Toyota dealerships across North America.

About W.D. Matthews
Walter D. Matthews founded the company in 1939 as a woodworking equipment business, and by 1955 they were supplying forklifts and other industrial equipment to New England area customers. Since then, W.D. Matthews has become one of that region's dominant players in the industrial equipment marketplace with a customer list that spans every major sector of the New England economy. For more information, visit wdmatthews.com and on Twitter @WDMatthews.

About Equip-Soft
Equip-Soft delivers software and services for the equipment distribution industry to help improve efficiencies in rentals, service, sales, parts, equipment and asset management aspects of distribution to improve relationships with customers and vendors. Equip-Soft software and services are powered by the fastest growing ERP platform in the world, Microsoft Dynamics, and feature industry-specific functionality. Equip-Soft is an IndustryBuilt Software company. For more information, visit equip-soft.com and on Twitter @Equip_Soft.

For more information contact:
Michelene Maguire
VP, Marketing
Equip-Soft, an IndustryBuilt Software Company
866.788.1086
michelene.maguire@industrybuilt.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

The power generator division of Columbus, OH-based Buckeye Power Sales Company has selected Equip-Soft and Microsoft Dynamics technology to help grow their business success in the Ohio and Indiana region.

Allentown, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/04/2012 -- Equip-Soft software and services have been selected by the power generator division of Buckeye Power Sales, the oldest signed Kohler power generator distributor in the United States. Buckeye provides equipment rental, parts and services for standby stationary power generators, with on-site service, for industrial, residential, marine and mobile applications in Ohio and Indiana. The company also rents portable generators to contractors and to organizers of outdoor events such as concerts, and for the purpose of storm/emergency backup.

"We chose Equip-Soft software to help us meet our objective to be a one-stop shop for the power generation equipment needs of our customers," says Craig Casdorph, Controller, Buckeye Power Sales.

David Pilz, President and CEO of IndustryBuilt, the parent company of Equip-Soft, says, 'we look forward to Buckeye's continued success as their experienced team and ours work together to implement innovative technology and turn it into even greater service."

About Equip-Soft
Equip-Soft delivers software and services for the equipment distribution industry to help improve efficiencies in rentals, service, sales, parts, and fleet management aspects of your business to improve relationships with your customers and vendors. Our industry experts have built a product roadmap that takes you where you want to grow, matching the best technology with the best business processes. Equip-Soft software and services are powered by the fastest growing ERP platform in the world, Microsoft Dynamics, and features industry-specific functionality. For more information, visit equip-soft.com or on Twitter @Equip_soft.

About Buckeye
Buckeye Power Sales Company has been in the business of distributing power supply since 1947, growing from three employees to a workforce at several locations across Ohio and Indiana. Buckeye Power Sales is the oldest signed distributor of Kohler power systems in the United States, providing full-service, on-site power systems for industrial, residential, marine, mobile and towable applications. For more information, visit buckeyepowersales.com.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Yale/Chase Equipment and Services, a $80-million equipment distribution leader in California and Hawaii, has seen revenue-enhancing and cost-saving benefits with their Equip-Soft enterprise resource planning (ERP) software system to optimize processes in rental, sales, parts, and servicing across seven industry divisions at six locations.

Mississauga, ON -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/23/2012 -- Equip-Soft software and services have been implemented at the six Southern California and Hawaii locations of Yale/Chase Equipment & Services, resulting in benefits across its rentals, parts, service and sales operations. Based in City of Industry, CA, the leading distributor carries equipment including Yale, JCB, Princeton, Drexel, Bendi, Taylor-Dunn, Star, Capacity, Trackmobile and other lines. The company has divisions for materials handling, industrial carts, construction, energy, terminal tractors, railcars, and electrical repairs and services.

"We've seen return on investment from the Equip-Soft system within the first two years," says Roger Ketelsleger, President/CEO and owner, who founded the company, then known as Yale/Chase Materials Handling, Inc., in 1994. Benefits realized with the Equip-Soft system, which is powered by the Microsoft Dynamics platform (the world's fastest growing ERP), include:

- Rentals functionality: A sortable availability tree means "no lost revenue while trying to locate equipment," says Ketelsleger, and the easy transfer of used equipment in and out of rentals has "become a revenue enhancer for us."

- Preventative Maintenance scheduled on unit utilization "has saved us a lot of money we used to spend over-servicing our equipment."

- Real time visibility into KPIs: Customized reporting within Equip-Soft has given Ketelsleger "the business metrics to run my business – metrics I didn't have before."

- Robust service dispatching program: User friendly and provides the data needed to set standards "such as getting productivity reports from our technicians." The company employs 100 field service technicians.

- Dynamic parts stocking of consignment and service vans; the Equip-Soft system automatically sets up parts based on criteria entered, resulting in less labor and more accuracy.

"Yale/Chase is the kind of company we love to partner with, aggressive in growth and strong believers in the power of technology," says Grant Skinner, VP, Equip-Soft, an Industry Built company. "We've watched Roger Ketelsleger and his team expand rapidly in the two years since they selected Equip-Soft, and we're thrilled to see them get the cost savings and revenue enhancements out of the system."

Yale/Chase Equipment and Services is now working on further implementation of Equip-Soft functionality, including the integration of their customer relationship management (CRM) system, field service mobility applications to enable remote work orders and in-car performance monitoring, and fleet management and fleet maintenance functionality – all of which is integrated in Equip-Soft.

For the full case study of Yale/Chase Equipment & Services and Equip-Soft, please download the PDF from the Resource Center at Equip-Soft.com.

About Yale/Chase Equipment & Services
Yale/Chase Equipment and Services, Inc. sells, rents and services various lines of equipment including Yale, JCB, Princeton, Drexel, Bendi, Taylor-Dunn, Star, Capacity, Trackmobile and various other equipment across southern California and Hawaii. The company has divisions for Materials Handling, Industrial Carts, Construction, Energy, Terminal Tractor, Railcar, and Electrical Repairs and Services. In addition to its headquarters in City of Industry, CA, Yale/Chase has other California branches in Escondido, Fontana, Huntington Beach and Valencia, as well as a second company in Honolulu, Hawaii. They employ 220 staff – including 100 field technicians – and reported 2011 sales of USD $ 70 million. For more information, visit http://www.yalechase.com or @YaleChase on Twitter.

About Equip-Soft
Equip-Soft delivers software and services for the equipment distribution industry to help improve efficiencies in rentals, service, sales, parts, and fleet management aspects of your business to improve relationships with your customers and vendors. Industrial equipment distributors working with Equip-Soft reduce implementation timeframes and implementation risks often associated with ERP. Equip-Soft software and services are powered by the fastest growing ERP platform in the world, Microsoft Dynamics, and features industry-specific functionality. For more information, visit http://equip-soft.com or @equip_soft on Twitter.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Medley Material Handling business headquartered in Oklahoma City , serving the mid-west for over seventy years has made the decision to partner with Equip-Soft and Microsoft Dynamics NAV to expand their Yale integrated rental and service offerings.

Allentown, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/28/2012 -- Leading material handling business which includes major distributor of Yale and JCB products, Medley Material Handling, supplies massive amounts of equipment focusing on serving the needs of Oklahoma, New Mexico, West Texas, Arizona and surrounding areas. Originally a humble family business started in 1941, it now has eight offices throughout the United States. With such major growth it needed to reconsider what type of business software would sustain the business.

"Making an ERP decision is not easy in this economy. However our business has been around for over seventy years and we plan to be around for a lot longer. We believe business software is essential to harness for business that want to grow. Microsoft Dynamics NAV has incredible scalability and we want to ensure that we are on a solid and growing platform. Equip-Soft has built out the functionality that equipment distributors need so we see them as the right partner to work with. Our goal is to consolidate all our stand-alone applications like MTA and Filemaker and get all our business into one transparent system" comments Mark Medley, President of Medley Material Handling.

"Ultimately Medley's profit will be affected because of better management of inventory, even their technician vans will have full transparency. Their business will also be positively impacted because they will be able to track credit across their multiple locations. Medley Material Handling is exactly the type of business we love to partner with. They have a vision based on growth and that's what we are very good at helping businesses do" states CEO, David Pilz, of IndustryBuilt Software, parent company of Equip-Soft.

About Equip-Soft
Equip-Soft is an equipment management system focused on the unique needs of equipment dealers. By combining the specific enhancements that Equip-Soft provides to the Microsoft Dynamics stack of technologies, we are able to help increase dealer operational efficiencies. Whether to increase margins from Part sales or to have full reporting on dead stock, our Equipment Management System helps Equipment Dealers with profitability. For more information please visit http://www.equip-soft.com and be sure to follow @Equip_Soft on Twitter.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm