As a Parts Manager, optimizing your fill rate is crucial for maintaining customer satisfaction and maximizing profitability. While the traditional measure of fill rate can be misleading, focusing on off-the-shelf performance or job fill provides a more...

Today, we delve into an essential topic for parts managers: measuring inventory turns. A thriving parts department is essential for any dealership, and this metric can give you a LOT of information about your parts department, especially when monitored...

As a parts manager, staying up-to-date with changing manufacturer guidelines is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge in the automotive industry. In today’s fast-paced environment, where technological advancements and industry regulations evolve rapidly,...

AI is transforming nearly all industries, and the automotive industry is no exception. With wide-ranging applications, AI can enable dealers and their teams to improve their effectiveness and efficiency through many implications and applications. Today, we’ll...

Corey Smith is a highly experienced fixed operations expert and trainer, currently working as the National Fixed Ops Training Manager at APCO Holding’s National Auto Care. With over 25 years in the automotive industry, Corey is dedicated to assisting service...

The parts department is an integral component of any dealership, ensuring customer satisfaction and keeping vehicles on the road. Unfortunately, many parts departments struggle with communication issues that can result in customer frustration, lost sales, and...

In the past few years, we’ve witnessed an important shift in thinking amongst dealers to appreciating just how much parts and service produces profit and overall dealership health. After all, parts and service departments are responsible for producing 49.6%...

During the past three years, nearly every industry and individual has been impacted either directly or indirectly by the COVID-19 pandemic. The automotive industry is no exception. Massive shifts have taken place in the labor market and in workers’...

Idle stock can clutter inventory shelves and drag down overall parts department health. Creating a systematic plan to identify and remove idle inventory is key to keeping things moving smoothly. In many cases, we find idle inventory originating from...

We get lots of questions about how to improve inventory health and how PartsEdge helps. Here are the most common questions and answers plus tips and tricks for further optimization.