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BanaLogic, automotive inspection
specialists, have released a
revolutionary new vehicle intake
and damage detection system
called BODYGUARD. Specifically designed for dealerships,
repair centers, car rental locations, and parking
garages, BODYGUARD employs high resolution cameras
and bright automatic LED lighting strategically
placed on towers, to digitize hundreds of images at
critical vehicle angles on a 3-5 second drive through.
BODYGUARD neatly organizes those images capturing
license plate data for easy retrieval from a year's
worth of secure and reliable cloud server storage. The
BODYGUARD system is designed to be affordable,
easy to implement as well as adaptable to a wide variety
of applications and lane configurations. For more
information, please visit bodyguardcam.com.
To learn more, visit: www.bodyguardcam.com or call
(866) 853-6320.
Dealers Continuing to Improve
Key Metrics Using
Recon Software
Rapid Recon today released its latest update on dealers'
progress toward improving their key reconditioning
performance metrics.
From May 2020 through March 2021, users of this
speed-to-sale software reduced their Average Days in
Recon (ADR) performance by 25% and their Time to
Line (T2L) execution by 11%.
" Most revealing in this continued improvement is
these dealers made these gains despite the pandemic
slowdown and the current remarkable demand for
used cars. The data show that these dealers continue
to get cars sale-ready fast to meet this record demand, "
said Anthony Martinez, Rapid Recon Director
of Client Services.
These improvements translate into two days' faster reconditioning,
which at NCM Associates' $40 per day
per car holding cost average means an extra $80 per
vehicle in gross margin. Across 100 vehicles, the gain
is $8,000.
ADR measures from when recon staff first start work
reconditioning a vehicle until all steps are completed
from mechanical to photography. T2L is a total count
of days, from vehicle acquisition through ADR until the
finished car is released as sale- and delivery-ready. The
T2L best practice is five to seven days.
ADR speed is increasingly important as online selling
stimulates more sales from cars still in recon.
Martinez identified three characteristics exhibited by
dealers improving these critical performance metrics:
* A commitment to continuous improvement of processes
by which they bring used cars to sale-ready
status more quickly.
* A consistent focus on using the software to identify
and remove approval delays and create real-time
communications and information sharing among
crucial fixed and variable operations personnel, from
lot tech to dealer principal.
* Aggressive reach-out and interaction with Rapid
Recon's Client Services team, including virtual and
onsite performance management recon experts for
an in-depth consultation, process and performance
reporting and analysis, and shared best practices.
Rapid Recon is the No. 1 best-selling reconditioning
software, enabling automobile dealerships to maximize
used car sales and profitability by improving speed to
sale of their used car inventory. www.rapidrecon.com
Contact: Jim Leman at 847-840-0784 jim@rapidrecon.
com
Contact: Keith Brice, Director, New Business Performance,
keith@rapidrecon.com / (757) 685-2916
MAY JUNE 2021
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