For your capital-intensive equipment business, fleet management excellence is key to profitability. eXtend's comprehensive life-cycle approach to fleet management helps you manage your units through their entire life cycle. eXtend tracks every aspect of equipment life cycle revenue, cost and contribution, freight, interest and depreciation, utilization, maintenance history, ownership, location, configuration and much more. This capability enables you to optimize your fleet, ranging from the evaluation of the performance of individual units, to portfolio and replacement decisions. To support fleet management excellence, eXtend ERP:

• Provides great visibility of equipment, attachments and components.
• Tracks every aspect of your equipment fleet, including interest expense, at the individual unit level.
• Incorporates sophisticated loan management functionality.
• Supports manufacturer price files, multiple discount levels and electronic transmission to support accurate equipment purchase orders.
• Provides separate and flexible selling prices for equipment quotes and sales agreements.
• Offers the ability to swap, remove and track attachments separately from base machines.
• Accurate forecasting of equipment demand.
• ... and much more.

eXtend's powerful life cycle costing logic provides a complete picture of unit revenue and cost. This forms the basis for an accurate ROI calculation, which enables informed divestment and replacement decisions, portfolio optimization, location optimization, cost saving programs and more.

Telematic data from AEMP interface-compliant manufacturers, which include Caterpillar, John Deere Construction & Forestry, Volvo Construction Equipment and Komatsu, allow automated hour meter updates enable eXtend's Service Planning feature to identify non-PM Service opportunities and optimize routing of PM jobs. In addition, eXtend provides full-featured integration with satellite tracking systems such as GlobalTracs, Trimble and OEM-specific solutions such as Komtrax from Komatsu.

The end result is increased Service revenue, less time for Technicians on-the-road and more on-the-job revenue generation. Through tight integration, eXtend provides dealers with maximum leverage for the fleet services they provide to customers, including location tracking, remote diagnostics, hours and mileage reporting, Service programs and theft prevention.

Fleet management starts with visibility. Standard integration between eXtend and mapping software packages such as Google Maps and Microsoft MapPoint provides instant visibility of equipment location. Fleet managers are only one click away from viewing full equipment details in a graphical and intuitive manner, giving them a better grip on fleet allocation, transportation route optimization and utilization.

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