Are we all reaching the End - Of - The - Rope

[RLWOLF]

I hate to show my age, but:
Anyone remember the "RSG" (Required Stocking Guide) ?
I think it was in the early 80's.

RLWOLF

[partsguy99]

I hate to show my age, but:
Anyone remember the "RSG" (Required Stocking Guide) ?
I think it was in the early 80's.

RLWOLF

Oh yeah, I do. How about Wholesale Compensation. How many remember that?

[Whiner]

I remember the RSG - wow what a program. I hate to utter these words but compared to the RSG, RIM is better.

If you remember the RSG - then you must also remember that it was a part of a larger program .... CFI (customer focused incentive)

AND YOU THOUGH PUTTING THE CUSTOMER AT THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING WE DO WAS A NEW PROGRAM / THOUGHT / PROCESS. Nope - Just the program of the month /year /decade.

Yes, I also remember wholesale comp. The counter invoices had another column for the wholesale compensation. Printed (YES, paper) price schedules had a column showing the comp amount. I believe the general office had to manually claim the comp amount each month. Can you imagine GM actually paid us to sell parts at cost. Aaahhh the "good?" ole days.....

[possum]

RSG was the beginning of the INTRUSION of GM into our business, their "foot-in-the-door". It was the excuse for DataShare and the progenitor of RIM, which now measures every sale in Service and wholesale, where you bought it from, the price you sell it for and thus MyPriceLink, the downfall of it all.

[Denise Trimble]

RSG was the beginning of the INTRUSION of GM into our business, their "foot-in-the-door". It was the excuse for DataShare and the progenitor of RIM, which now measures every sale in Service and wholesale, where you bought it from, the price you sell it for and thus MyPriceLink, the downfall of it all.

....As well as the beginning of all the Data Mining we dealers do (for free) for GM.

[Richard]

RSG was the beginning of the INTRUSION of GM into our business, their "foot-in-the-door". It was the excuse for DataShare and the progenitor of RIM, which now measures every sale in Service and wholesale, where you bought it from, the price you sell it for and thus MyPriceLink, the downfall of it all.

....As well as the beginning of all the Data Mining we dealers do (for free) for GM.

We don't do it for free, we get charged $199/mo for it from O.E. Connection.....how about that? We PAY GM to screw us!!

[JustBob]

PDQ was a Wholesale Parts GM promotion in the 1960's. I thin it was initially "Parts Delivered Quick" aka Parts Damn Quick aka Pretty Damn Quick. Dates me a little - you guys keep working so my SS checks do not bounce!
My experience at that time was with an independent pasts store what with about 90% of it's business being wholesale to New car and truck dealers, independent garages, service stations, and shade tree mechanics within a 45 mile radius of mostly one horse towns in Kansas. A salesman visited the customers each week, wrote orders, promoted specials, and built a real relationship with the customer. The stock orders were delivered in a day or two via a company vehicle. Backorders were rare. A few of the tricks of the trade were:

Shipping parts over night on the Greyhound Bus to other towns - had a pretty early cutoff time however.
Exhibitors Film Delivery was also an option for delivery to towns that had a movie theatre.
We also had access with a very late cutoff time via the "Bread Truck". We would take the shipment to where the two bread delivery vans were parked at night. Had a key to the door. Leave the boxes next to the delivery truck with fifty cents taped to the top of it. One driver went East 45 miles the other South 45 miles early in the morning except Wednesday and Sunday. They stopped at every spot in the road that had a café of grocery store. Driver made a few extra bucks, customer received delivery - never had a damage claim or lost package.

A whole counter of parts manufacturers paper catalogs, paper price sheets in different colors for stocking or non stocking dealers and retail. Manual tickets, Parts Inventory trays with a card for each part number with on hand, sales, reorder level and description.
1320 Walker muffler for GM
GM ujoints by the case.
982 Delco Battery Acid in 5 gallon boxes - really stunk when you filled a battery!

Minimum wage was 75 cents and I was in tall cotton at $1.25 an hour.


Things have changed.

[bigmac]

PDQ was a Wholesale Parts GM promotion in the 1960's. I thin it was initially "Parts Delivered Quick" aka Parts Damn Quick aka Pretty Damn Quick. Dates me a little - you guys keep working so my SS checks do not bounce!
My experience at that time was with an independent pasts store what with about 90% of it's business being wholesale to New car and truck dealers, independent garages, service stations, and shade tree mechanics within a 45 mile radius of mostly one horse towns in Kansas. A salesman visited the customers each week, wrote orders, promoted specials, and built a real relationship with the customer. The stock orders were delivered in a day or two via a company vehicle. Backorders were rare. A few of the tricks of the trade were:

Shipping parts over night on the Greyhound Bus to other towns - had a pretty early cutoff time however.
Exhibitors Film Delivery was also an option for delivery to towns that had a movie theatre.
We also had access with a very late cutoff time via the "Bread Truck". We would take the shipment to where the two bread delivery vans were parked at night. Had a key to the door. Leave the boxes next to the delivery truck with fifty cents taped to the top of it. One driver went East 45 miles the other South 45 miles early in the morning except Wednesday and Sunday. They stopped at every spot in the road that had a café of grocery store. Driver made a few extra bucks, customer received delivery - never had a damage claim or lost package.

A whole counter of parts manufacturers paper catalogs, paper price sheets in different colors for stocking or non stocking dealers and retail. Manual tickets, Parts Inventory trays with a card for each part number with on hand, sales, reorder level and description.
1320 Walker muffler for GM
GM ujoints by the case.
982 Delco Battery Acid in 5 gallon boxes - really stunk when you filled a battery!

Minimum wage was 75 cents and I was in tall cotton at $1.25 an hour.


Things have changed.

Thanks Bob, you made me feel young again!

[RLWOLF]

JustBob,
Then there were the inventory "Card Systems"
Ever drop a tray of them babies and have to put them back in numerical order.
And then try and figure out which ones had the red, green, or blue tabs on them ???????

Ah, the simple days !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[drapp]

I started in the parts business, part time, in 1979 - 1980. "Took over" as manager in 1983. We had the card file as well. Of course I had no formal training, learn-as-you-go was the norm back then. It took a long time for me to realize what all those little metal tabs were for - I never did get the meaning of all the colors.

When Goodwrench exhaust was introduced we put that whole inventory on a different color inventory card. I really gave myself a pat on the back for thinking of that. Of course once we were fully stocked and a few years into the program - more than $10,000 of exhaust in stock - GM pulled the plug and discontinued the whole program. What a nightmare. We dealt with "lifetime" warranty issues for years and years.

I was so impressed when we got a computer system and I could do a target order in a few minutes instead of a few hours.

I am getting old.

I still think cell phones are a fad - they will go away...NOT

Social media - isn't that just a friendly guy/gal on the news