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Does anyone who has Dealertrack use the ScanSolutions program & scanners for their parts department? Just looking for feedback on this product.

Thanks

Is that from ADP? One dealer I worked for bought the one from ADP. It was really cumbersome back then, 10+ years ago. Our dealership was not big enough to utilize the service either, but the pets mgr was a computer geekm& though it would be a neat gadget. Hope you find something you can be efficient using.

I've yet to be convinced they are worth the trouble. In a self serve store where the customer is pulling their own merchandise off the shelf and the cashier has to identify and price the stuff, it makes sense. But in our environment, we look up the part number in the catalog and then transfer it to the inventory system to get a bin location. At the point, we can turn that lookup into an invocice with a key press. So what's the point of scanning it at the point-of-purchase? I could see it for checking in huge stock orders, but that's assuming the manufacturer is religious about attaching a bar code to each and every piece (not so with any of the 4 franchises I've worked with) and that the scanner software can interact with the packing list. It might be good for a physical inventory but then you still have to enter the quantities and match to the bin location.

Am I missing something here?

This isn't a scanner system for point of sale selling. It is a scanner system for receiving orders, doing perpetual counts and inventory.