The success of a dealership is, in large part, due to its employees, and as dealers outgrow their facilities, these 5 are focused on building a better environment for their technicians to ensure continued growth.
How do you handle onboarding at your locations? We are all looking for qualified employees. Some dealers are complaining about not being able to keep their people, yet how much effort are we putting into the onboarding process?
In this webinar, Wayne Brozek of NAEDA’s Dealer Institute will discuss ways to increase gross margin percentage, discuss important measurements, benchmarks, and processes that should be followed daily, weekly, and monthly in the parts department to improve your business. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]
Doug Pascoe, corporate parts manager for the Case IH dealership, says as the dealership has grown, adding a corporate level to the parts department was necessary. The dealership has put a large focus on recruiting young talent and training its rising stars in the parts department.
As the corporate parts manager, Doug Pascoe’s job — simply put — is to ensure the parts departments at Young’s Equipment’s 9 locations remain profitable.
In a recent webinar, Trent Hummel, consultant and trainer for the Western Equipment Dealers Assn.’s Dealer Institute, explained how dealers can maximize the benefit of their OEM return program, sell obsolete parts to the wholegoods department at a discount and have their technicians assist by upselling parts while on service jobs.
If your strategy for selling parts is relying on walk-in traffic or the service department, you’re missing out on opportunities. “Dealers who are relying on walk-in traffic are the dealers who are complaining about their parts business.
The parts department isn’t a particularly sexy department, so most dealers usually put their focus on the sales department. We haven’t been that way. Parts first is how we look at ourselves.” That’s what one dealer recently told me when I asked him what set his dealership apart. He went on to explain how the parts department is the first priority when it comes to training, showroom space and merchandising.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Weasler Engineering, we look at some analyst comments on Scott Wine's departure from CNH Industrial. In the Technology Corner, Noah Newman talks to Pessl Instruments' CEO about the recent investment it received from Lindsay Corp. Also in this episode, dealers and farmers chime in on brand loyalty, air seeder sales forecasts and layoffs at the Racine, Wis., Case IH plant.
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