Dealertrack- no bin 2 location?

[cain555]

Thank you. Another thing he told me was there isn't really price protection for certain parts. ie I have tshirts on the front counter and currently with R&R I put those parts in a source to where no one can get a discount, regardless of who they are, like an employee. This is because of the small markup. What this rep told me was that if I have an employee come in to buy one, his price level will trump any protection I have on the part. Do you all find this to be true as well?

[DMSOUTH]

not true--in "Parts in inventory" screen enter your selling price as the "flat price"--whenever you sell this part
it will be at this price regardless of price level....

[Richard]

awesome, thank you. If you don't mind, I had another question. Do your counter guys charge out your bulk oil (on oil changes), and if so, does it come out of your standard inventory? We are a GM store, so I am referring to my 242 account, which is standard parts- the rep said we would have to inventory our bulk oil in there, not Gas Oil and Grease. Little surprised by that. (We haven't gone live yet) Thank you!

I was on DT back when it was Arkona...who is your pre-installer? Most of the ones I know insist on setting up proper groups and accounting for GOG/Tires/Cores, ect.... If they still say no, talk to the team leader, you REALLY need to keep the accounting separate.

[Richard]

most reports can't be run on screen--must be printed

You can default your reports to QPRINT, and look at them before you print them. I did that for the entire time we were on ARKONA/DT, because I hate wasting paper!

[cain555]

How do you add the part in as a GOG? All they are telling me is to add it in as a regular part, aka 242 account

[greenthumb-38]

first set up a STOCKING GROUP in APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT/STOCKING GROUPS from the main parts menu screen.

- ADD or F6 to begin the process.
- SELECT the vendor. ( I have source acct'g set up for both the GM VENDOR and the OT VENDOR, you cannot use the same stocking group number for GM and OT, they must be different).
- SELECT an UNUSED STOCKING GROUP number.
- ENTER the sales acct'g numbers for the fields as they appear, the first screen is for over the counter sales. The second screen is for Repair Order sales.
- MOVE through the screens that follow for pricing and price matrix settings. Then for PHASE IN/OUT criteria.
- Lastly, SELECT the new stocking group in the CHANGE function of screen 10, PARTS IN INVENTORY.

test to confirm.

~ gt has stocking group special acct'g set up for PARTS, GOG, TIRES, FREIGHT, VARIOUS SHOP SUPPLIES, and WHEEL WEIGHTS.