Founded in Belgium in 1985, Stageco now has rental operations in Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Germany and the USA, and has serviced some of the world’s most high-profile tours, sporting events and festivals, counting the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Pink Floyd, U2 and Robbie Williams among its clients.
The company stocks in excess of 7,000 different products - sometimes holding as many as 10,000 examples of each - making for a stock-holding which numbers literally millions of items. Consequently, the logistics of tracking movement and availability presents a huge administrative effort, hence why the company turned to RMS.
The system that Stan Gunkel of RMS came up with treats the company’s various stocks as a single entity, and uses internet connections and a 150MB database to track movement across the company’s six sites. Regular online updates to the database mean that each Stageco branch has an exact up-to-date record of what is available, as well as where and when.
The system incorporates a library of AutoCAD designs and elements, and once a drawing is completed it is exported to the RMS system which then automatically generates all the required documentation, guaranteed error-free. When drawings are changed and updated, all documentation is updated accordingly. For jobs where the equipment list alone can run to 40 pages, this represents a huge saving in time and administrative effort.
Lee Baldock
