Ford Pro FinSimple: Supply 2 Location

Every business growth journey is unique, with its own specific needs and challenges, and we understand that financing a fleet isn’t a?‘one-size-fits-all’ job.

So, there are many different stories being created along the way.

Stories like our fleet customer, Supply 2 Location Group , who eliminated the hassle of financing individual vehicles and the laborious task of hunting down the right finance provider.

At Ford Pro we want to share these stories, and hopefully, inspire others to make growth easier for their own businesses.

Supply 2 Location Group is a 24/7 hire company supplying the UK film, television and commercials industry with location logistics, equipment hire, and consumables. With bases in London and the South East, the Midlands, Merseyside, Wales and Scotland, they offer everything from generators, lighting and heating equipment to make-up mirrors, ground protection and catering facilities.?

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The vehicles have enabled the growth

“The last two to three years, it’s gone from 6 million, 8 million, 10 million, and we currently turn over about 12 million” CEO James Williams tells us. “We have about 40 to 50 vehicles on the fleet now. Over the last two years, we’ve probably doubled our fleet size, from 20 Ford vehicles to about 40. The vehicles have enabled the growth.”

With such rapid and extensive growth, it’s easy to see how the company quickly outgrew their existing finance providers and processes, and started looking for a more practical solution that could keep up with their broadening client base.

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Speaking to John Wasmuth, Supply 2 Location’s CFO, he tells us “In the past, purchasing vehicles has been a bit of a nightmare. You’d have to get finance against individual vehicles, and then depending on what the vehicle was or how many vehicles we wanted, we would perhaps phone one, two, maybe even three different funding providers. Taking a lot of time to get to that point.”

Keeping up with such ambitious expansion and demand is, understandably no mean feat, especially when vehicles are at the core of everything your business does. Fortunately, Supply 2 Location Group were introduced to Ford Pro FinSimple and their Commercial Line of Credit. [GR(3]?

Ford Pro FinSimple offered Supply 2 Location Group a flexible, efficient alternative to this often lengthy process. Enabling them to order additional vehicles through their chosen dealer whenever needed, with no need to go through the time-consuming process of reapplying each time.

It saves time. A lot of time.

John says " Ford Pro FinSimple offered us a Commercial Line of Credit. It’s been very important to us as a business, knowing that we’ve got one person to go to for all our account management needs.”

This easy and transparent finance option makes running a rapidly expanding business such as Supply 2 Location Group as easy and hassle-free as possible.

“We know that the facility is in place. We know that all we need to worry about it picking the right vehicle, and not having to worry about trying to get the right credit account facility in place for each vehicle.”

CEO James tells us “Commercial Line of Credit helps because you only have to do it once a year. You’ve not got red tape and hoops to jump through every time you need a vehicle.”

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Options as flexible as your business

To wrap up, we asked James what the main benefit of using Ford Pro FinSimple has been for Supply 2 Location Group . “We’re always looking for solutions for our clients to make their life simple, to increase our business. Ford Pro have put this product into place and it’s made our lives a lot easier and a lot simpler to increase our fleet. Which in turn has improved our service to our clients.”

Every fleet financing journey will be different. For Supply 2 Location Group , with the help of Ford Pro FinSimple, they now have a streamlined process in place, meaning they can spend their time focussing on delivering the absolute best service possible to their clients.

With the support of their chosen Ford Pro FinSimple Dealer, it’s clear to see from the numbers and rate of expansion that it’s a system that works for Supply 2 Location Group .

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