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What Does a Modern Rental ERP Need? 7 Requirements Why Rental Equipment Outgrows Standard Inventory Tools A modern rental ERP has to manage equipment that leaves, returns, and earns revenue many times over its life. Standard inventory tools are built for items that are bought once and sold once. On September 30, 2026, Tom Marshello,…

Serialized Parts Tracking Breaks at the Handoff, Not the Shelf Why Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Inventory Management Has to Follow Every Part From the Parts Counter to the Warranty Office Most equipment dealers don’t have a parts problem. They have a record problem. The part is on the shelf, the technician is on the job,…

6 Questions Every Equipment Dealer Should Ask Before Signing a DMS Contract What to Confirm Before You Commit, Not After You’ve Already Signed You’ve done the research. You know what a dealer management system actually does, and you’ve worked through how to evaluate one for your dealership. Now there’s a contract in front of you,…

How Enterprise Equipment Dealers Should Evaluate a DMS What Changes When You’re Managing Multiple Locations, Not Just One At one location, you can walk the floor and know what’s happening. You can see the parts counter, hear about a slow service bay, and catch a stockout before it costs you a sale. At five locations,…

The Small Equipment Dealer’s Guide to Choosing a DMS What to Evaluate When Your Team Is Lean and Every Technology Dollar Counts You’re running a lean operation. Your team knows the equipment, knows the customers, and gets the work done. But somewhere between purchase orders, service calls, and rental agreements, the data is scattered. A…

What Is an Equipment Dealer Management System? A Buyer’s Overview for Equipment Dealers If your operation runs on a mix of spreadsheets, a basic accounting system, and phone calls to track down who owns what unit, you already know the problem. Managing serialized equipment from the initial purchase through the sale, warranty period, service events,…

MHEDA’s Trends Before the Convention And What the Event Actually Confirmed Three Operational Realities the 2026 Annual Convention Put Into Focus At the end of last year, I dove into MHEDA’s trend reports and made a point that still holds up: the companies winning aren’t chasing the newest tech; they’re mastering the tools that make…

CAT Dealer ERP Trends: Key Takeaways from NADITA 2026 What IT Leaders at the NADITA Annual Conference Said About ERP Modernization, AI, and Change Management Suite Engine joined the NADITA 2026 Annual Conference as part of our ongoing work supporting CAT dealer equipment lifecycle operations. Four days of sessions, roundtables, and hallway conversations made one…

Managing Equipment Rentals in Business Central – What Actually Works – You chose Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central because it’s a solid ERP. It handles your financials, manages your purchasing, and tracks your inventory. But when you try to manage equipment rentals? You hit a wall. Standard Business Central treats your bulldozers like widgets in…

Key Takeaways and Insights From the AED Summit 2026 – By Kayla Magnan Tom Marshello and I just wrapped up three days at the 2026 AED Summit at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas. If you’ve been before, you know this is where dealers, manufacturers, and distributors drop the sales pitches and actually talk about what’s…

5 Game-Changing Leadership Lessons from the AED Women in Equipment Conference Walking into a room full of women shaping the future of the equipment industry? Pure inspiration. The AED Women in Equipment Conference delivered strategies, stories, and support that you can put to work immediately. Whether you missed the event or want to revisit the…

Unified Equipment Dealer Management – RPM Stop juggling disconnected systems that drain your productivity. If you’re managing rentals in one system, service in another, and parts in a third—while your accounting team manually reconciles everything—you know the real cost of operational chaos. Missed opportunities, billing errors, and frustrated customers are symptoms of a bigger problem:…