lube bay parts

[fxwgrider80]

We have a separate lube bay on the other side of building from parts and service.
Want to streamline a little with stock filters in lube bay. Anyone have a similar
situation? If I do this I will probably take a daily inventory/replenishment.
Any advice?

Thanks

[last8please]

we have the situation here, started out with oil , air and cabin filters - but ended up taking air and cabin back inside parts dept because so many were being installed without being billed out or they installed a carbon instead of the particulate (or vice/versa). a lot easier to just have oil filters out there.

[Torgy]

We have the same situation. We have only oil filters, and Ac-Delco wiper blades in the quick lane are, & the advisors bill them on the work orders.

We do an inventory on both at the end of the day every Friday. I tally up the shorts and the overs, make my inventory adjustments, and then if we are short as far as $'s, that amount....+ markup is billed back to the quick lane. I seems to work pretty well.

When we first started our quick lane we did not inventory every week and what a mess it became in a hurry, we were running out of filters and wiper blades.
Now that we monitor this, our service manager watches the quick lane supplies and holds the advisors accountable for the inventory.

[fxwgrider80]

I appreciate your input. I figured I would need to keep a close eye on it.
If its not bolted down it will probably walk.

Thanks

[EH427]

We have oil filters out there only. I run a labor op report every day to check closed orders from the previous day to capture oil changes that did not get parts billed out on them. I get about 3-7 a week. When I do catch one with no parts, I charge the parts to service policy as the tech did not send up the request and the writer also missed it on the ro when they closed it.

[bsnyder723]

The last dealership I worked at had a separate quick lube dept. And they had a small parts department. We sold them parts at 5% over cost and the writers were required to bill out their own parts. They got inventoried every 6 months and they were pretty close every time.