by Jaybee » Mon Jun 07, 2021 3:35 pm
Okay a little off subject here, but.... Why not add aftermarket parts to the system? I got tired of having techs stand around waiting for a used car oil filter. I started putting them in the system, in their own source. Built up some history and started stocking them. I did the same thing with wiper blades. The parts advisors didn't like it at first, because they had to use the vendors on line ordering system to look up the parts. They were used to calling the parts store for a "Used Car Special", which was wiper blades and an oil filter. In fact the vendor had pretty good VIN filtering and we did not have to find out engine size if we needed it. I even starting queing a stock order on these items. It seemed to save my techs working on used cars alot of time. Even before stocking these items, it seemed to be faster to bill them as cost and list did not seem to change very often.