GM up to their old tricks

[PartsPlant81]

According to the DMA's and DM's...WE created the SLP program. It was all of our ideas from the DFOAB! Wanna talk about a crock of shit...LOL

[X476]

with all the CRAP the GM is forcing down our throats Iam seriously considering leaving the car business. I'm to young (49) to retire, that being said where have some of your employees that left and got out gone. I don't know just how much more I can stomach

[Zep33]

Automate has a box in each part # to either update or not from the mfg - all/nothing, cost, or list.

I'm wondering if doing a batch update to not update LIST price would curtail this at all. Obviously, list changes (99% of the time) when cost changes.

So on the monthly price update printout, maybe only those #s where cost changes would need to be looked up and punched back in to the DMS


Just throwing some ideas out there because the more I think about this, the worse it seems.

There are way too many regular selling parts that have nothing to do with collision work in their generic listing on that bulletin. They're gonna screw this up just like they did with SLP and put out update after update after update and still won't get it right

They are claiming that returning a part price within 30 seconds is a plus ? Seriously, wtf? 30 miliseconds is what we need, like our DMS provides

From their website:

"How It Works

Dealers will use the OEConnection portal to get the current pricing for a part. If you already use OEConnection's CollisionLink® solution to process your collision-parts orders, the dynamic pricing will automatically replace the OE List price that shows today. If not, getting prices is a simple process:

Enter vehicle and GM part number information into MyPriceLink.
Information is then automatically sent to the part pricing engine.
The pricing engine calculates a price and sends it back to MyPriceLink within 30 seconds so you can quickly provide it to your shop or walk-in customer."


So we'll even have to enter the vehicle even if we already know the part #? appears that way

[GM2FOCUS]

The game changing platform may be where we get that new bone at ?

[TimK]

I would like to put them all in a separate source and set up list and trade prices by a percentage markup.

[tmundal]

On my collisionlink screen there is actually now a Mypricelink tab I can click. Has a couple little walkthroughs.. Holy crap. Customer already complain they have to hold for too long. This is going to suck.

Am i correct in thinking this is just some way of GM competing with parts trader?

[CMayne]

"Am i correct in thinking this is just some way of GM competing with parts trader?"
Probably a little closer to some Moron IT freak competing with another one trying to keep his/her job.
At our expense of course.

[tmundal]

So for you guys who are big into wholesale.. What are you thinking pricing strategy wise? We can't say 28% off or whatever anymore, because I'm guessing that's going to probably go below cost now.. Anyone put any thought into it yet? Would like to see what you all have to say, or what you are thinking you are going to do.

It also doesn't help that this is supposed to happen in now less than a month, and everything is so damn vague... Pretty sure its going to be a total cluster no matter how prepared everyone is.

[possum]

I still think we're missing something.
How can it be legal to not have a published MSRP and for LIST price be "market driven"?
What market?
WTF does that mean?
Do we make it up for ourselves?
What do we tell our Retail and Service dep't customers?
Or are the insurance companies going to decide?
What the heck is going on here?

[SirRon]

If your customers have not signed up for MyPriceLink, they will only receive the standard price for the part. Be sure to spread the word about the benefits of registration to all your GM collision customers!

This program is to get your wholesale customers on collisionlink. It seems to me that GM is positioning this as a competitor to Parts Trader.