Linder Customer Success Story

Industry Best Practices Increase Efficiency and Profitability

For over 60 years, Linder Industrial Machinery has sold and supported heavy equipment for residential and commercial construction, highway construction, paving, aggregates and mining, landscape construction, forestry, demolition, agriculture, industrial, utility, government, material handling and numerous other markets.

 

Linder is one of the largest Komatsu dealers in North America with 16 locations in key cites throughout North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. Linder also represents many other lines of equipment including Wirtgen, Vogele, Hamm, Kleemann, Midland Machinery, Allied Construction Products; Genesis demolition and scrap attachments; Mincon, Esco, Hensley and Superior Brooms.

Linder Industrial Machinery Company

Headquartered: Plant City, Florida, US

Founded: 1953

Locations: 17 locations in 3 US states

Industries:  Construction, paving, aggregates, mining, forestry, demolition, agriculture, and material handling

OEMs: Komatsu, Wirtgen, Vogele, Hamm, Kleemann, Midland Machinery, Allied Construction Products, Genesis, Mincon, Esco, Hensley, Superior Brooms and more

Challenges

Linder Industrial Machinery is a large company with 16 locations across three different states, but before partnering with e-Emphasys they were still using an outdated legacy system. They were also using many “bolt-on” third party applications. In choosing a new Dealer Management System, Linder was looking to reduce “islands of information” and to increase automation of processes that were previously manual.

“Enhancing our customer support capabilities and reducing response time required us to implement more efficient process to speed up communication between our staff at our 16 locations and improve integrations with our business partners,” said John Coughlin, President.

“Our legacy business system was a major impediment. We had no option but to follow the process defined in the software. e-Emphasys was a paradigm shift for us. Built in Best Practices helped us immensely to drive efficiency at every level of our operation.”

Solutions

As a forward-looking company, Linder chose e-Emphasys ERP because of its best-in-class monitoring, reporting and analytic capabilities as well its modern, future-proof foundation. With e-Emphasys they found a next-generation DMS which could handle every aspect of their operations.

“We now have much better visibility over all of our operations, making it easier to analyze and make decisions proactively,” said Coughlin. “Automation improved our supply chain efficiency, and reduced errors from processes that were previously manual.”

Another key factor was e-Emphasys experience as a DMS dedicated solely to the Heavy Equipment and Rental Industry. e-Emphasys’ Best Business Practices allowed for a quick and seamless implementation.

“e-Emphasys ERP enabled us to get our implementation done on-time and on budget. This is critical because it allowed us to experience ROI quickly,” said Peggy Smith, CFO.

“A long implementation cycle introduces risk. It’s important that you get implementation done quickly so you can begin to recognize the benefits of the new system. We understand that some systems take as long as 12 to 30 months to implement. In comparison, our implementation of e-Emphasys ERP took only four months.”

Our legacy business system was a major impediment. We had no option but to follow the process defined in the software. e-Emphasys was a paradigm shift for us. Built in Best Practices helped us immensely to drive efficiency at every level of our operation.

- John Coughlin, President, Linder Industrial Machinery

Results & Benefits

Linder Industrial Machinery felt that the benefits in visibility and efficiency after implementing e-Emphasys ERP far exceeded their expectations. They reported significant ROI almost in their first year.

“With e-Emphasys, we are leveraging the latest technology to improve communications with our OEM’s and integrate processes that were previously manual,” said Coughlin. “Our investment with e-Emphasys is already delivering. Our efficiency and productivity matrices have gone up in less than a year, and our revenue has grown by 32%.”

“We are finding that our KPI’s are available daily instead of monthly. This greatly improves management’s ability to impact operations,” said Smith.

“I can confidently say that e-Emphasys ERP is the industries most sophisticated Dealer Management System, and recommend it to other growing equipment dealerships,” said Coughlin.

“e-Emphasys is allowing us to meet our goal of exceeding customer expectations.”

With e-Emphasys, we are leveraging the latest technology to improve communications with our OEM’s and integrate processes that were previously manual. Our investment with e-Emphasys is already delivering. Our efficiency and productivity matrices have gone up in less than a year, and our revenue has grown by 32%.

- John Coughlin, President, Linder Industrial Machinery

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