Parts management

Two Branches, One Shelf

The second site changes the question. With one workshop, parts is a stock problem: what is on the shelf, what is promised, what needs ordering.

There is a box somewhere in your workshop. Behind the racking, under a bench, or out in the yard under a sheet. In it are

A dealer with a workshop has an advantage and a blind spot, and they are the same thing. The advantage is obvious. You bought the

Here is a small, expensive thing that happens in workshops every week. A car comes in on Tuesday and needs a part you do not

Two identical cars, two weeks apart, same set of front pads. The first was written up by the advisor who has been there nine years

Somebody is getting the phone call. On Monday an advisor books a cambelt for Tuesday morning, checks the shelf, sees the kit, promises the car

The stock take is not the painful bit. The painful bit is the twenty minutes afterwards. Somebody counts bin A1-03 and finds seven oil

You have six of the same filter on the shelf. You did not buy them at the same time and you did not pay the

Ask a workshop owner how last month went and you will get a labour answer. Hours sold, hours attended, efficiency, maybe recovery rate against the

Every parts system you have ever been shown was built for somebody bigger than you. It opens on a catalogue you are expected to build.

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