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[Webinar] Managing By the Numbers

February 23, 2016 | Posted in Operations & Finance
Farm Equipment's sister publication, Rural Lifestyle Dealer, presents a new webinar, "Managing By the Numbers" In it, Rural Lifestyle Dealer columnist Bob Clements shares how your business management software can help you improve the performance of the people and profitability of each of your departments. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]
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Dealership Minds 2016 Overview: Kern Machinery

Adapt and adapt again is this dealership’s mantra as it thrives in California’s highly diverse and rapidly changing ag environment.
By Farm Equipment Staff posted on February 13, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance, Department Management, Dealer News
In the fourth of Farm Equipment’s every-other-year Dealership Minds series, six editors travelled to central California to experience first-hand how a successful dealership — Kern Machinery — operates in a market where agriculture can only be described as “diverse,” “intensive” and “rapidly changing.” It wasn’t that long ago when cotton, potatoes and hay dominated the landscape. Today, vegetables, fruit, grapes and nuts are taking over.
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When to Know When the CFO Role Is Needed

By Mike Lessiter posted on February 13, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance
Marty Buck, the CFO for Kern Machinery and the other Camp family entities (based in Bakersfield, Calif.), explained to Farm Equipment some of the differences in financial management responsibilities as dealerships grow in scale. He joined Kern 7 years ago, after previously leading financial departments at Unisys and Bolthouse Farms.
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Reliable Tech Support Takes Patience & Passion

By Jack Zemlicka posted on February 13, 2016 | Posted in Operations & Finance
Customer chatter on the showroom floor or a wrench wrapping around a bolt in the service bay are often sounds that help define the success of a dealership. Less audible, but just as critical is the soft and constant purr of a company’s central computer servers, from which flow nearly every business operation.
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Cultivating Supplier Relationships to Build Customer Loyalty

By Dave Kanicki posted on February 13, 2016 | Posted in Operations & Finance, Department Management, Niche Equipment Markets
“I miss cotton,” says Larry Sitzman. “We really enjoyed serving the cotton industry for a lot of years.” But today, cotton, which was once called “white gold,” has become insignificant in California’s Central Valley, one of the most diverse agricultural regions in the U.S., if not the world. Kern Machinery, where Sitzman is the general sales manager, hasn’t sold a cotton picker in more than 10 years.
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