PHASE IN AND OUT (HEAR ME OUT) Automate
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 4:31 pm
GM (RIM) and CHRYSLER (ARO) dealer here... We also have Automate as our DMS. Although our inventories are managed by the manufacturers and parts have to stay in our systems for at least 15 mos without sales before they are eligible to go back without penalty we have an issue in both dealerships with high counts of parts in the NS AND AP status ... We have looked at some of these numbers how they get these parts statuses. We reached out to automate for assistance on a fix and they told us that since we are RIM and ARO it doesn't matter that they are in NS OR AP and there is no fix. We had a consultant in and he didn't think that was correct so we ran a suggested stock order then killed it and it did bring those part number counts down a bit but not enough. I checked some of the numbers in NS that are RIM MANAGED and a lot of them haven't gotten to the 15 month no sales yet.... What are your thoughts... something to worry about or not. When a dealer sees parts ($'s) in NS or AP it appears to them that we may have a lot of idle parts when in all reality we may not.. FYI our 18 months no sales is actually pretty good..