Equipment suppliers near our projects, for rentals

Equipment suppliers near each project, approved for rentals.

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Mining, oil & gasMiningConstruction

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What it does

Every quarter: construction equipment suppliers within 50 km of your active projects (your table), the best-rated first, approved by the projects team, in a rentals sheet.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, take your table, find construction equipment suppliers and equipment rental agencies nearby, remove duplicates, wait for approval, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Projects rent equipment at short notice. Approved suppliers nearby make it quick.

Who it is for

Mining, oil & gas. Mining companies, oil and gas operators and their suppliers keeping remote sites safe, supplied and on good terms with their neighbours. Every use case for mining, oil & gas

Best use cases

  • A project team
  • A mining contractor
  • A construction company

What each run gives you

  • A Google Sheet

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 45 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.

The flow, block by block

  1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
  2. Active projectsYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
  3. Equipment suppliers nearbyxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
  4. Each supplier onceLogic · Remove duplicatesKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.
  5. Approve the suppliersLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
  6. Update the rentals sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
  7. Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

Use it now

Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.

How to set it up

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