Dealers are you concerned about ?
- Eroding Revenues
- Low grossing repair orders either in your labour or parts sales
- Higher than average one line repair orders at your dealership
- Productivity & Efficiency of technicians and front line personnel (Yes Front Line Personnel)
- Hours per Repair Order
- Parts Line fill to complete quick turn-around service events
- Departmental Communications Issues
- Communications/Cooperation concerns between departments , based on department, dealer or manufacturer policy understandings; understandings ultimately affecting dealership relationships with all dealership customers
- Shop capacity issues
- Wrong work assignments based on the skill level needed to complete repairs
- Higher paid technicians completing lower skill level vehicle repairs
- FRFT (Fixed Right First Time) issues
- High FRFT (Fixed Right First Time) but low customer concerns with actual quality of repairs
- Manufacturer's Customer Viewpoint lower than peer group averages with higher than normal consumer issues reported
- Manufacturer sponsored surveys with negative responses
- Internal after service visit follow-up with negative responses
- Manufacturer sponsored surveys with negative responses
- Higher than average Policy costs in your fixed operations
- Higher than industry average employee turn-over due to lack of perceived earnings
- Higher than industry average employee turn-over related to lack of job performance
- Perceived staff concerns related to stocking levels of Fast Moving (high turn) Parts pieces (i.e. Tires, brakes, wipers, spark plugs, etc.)
- Effective labour Rates equal to your group or closer to industry suggested standards : realizing 92% (or better) of Posted Door Rate
- Increase your service absorption to be best in group
- Moving Service Advisory and support Staff thought process from one of order taking to proper service selling "make them Service Sales' Professionals"
- Increase your customers presence in the dealership
- Increase your profitability
- Increase of best advertising in world - word of mouth referrals
- Gross Margins equal to or better than dealer in your market area and/or your 20 group
- Easy workable solutions that will see more (Vehicle Sales Customers New, Pre-Owned and Fleet) customers returning to the dealership more often for all their vehicle and servicing needs
- Cost effective programs your staff will support and work with
- Freeing up or Parts inventory dollars by reducing Special Parts Order and stale parts inventory
- More Fleet and Commercial customer coming to the dealership more often
- Help in properly utilizing manufacturer's support tools and Marketing programs