Fixed Ops Magazine 2024 Vol 21-6 - 52

PARTS DEPARTMENT BY ANDREAS RONNESETH
A PARTS
MANAGER'S
ROADMAP
TO SUCCESS
How One Hyundai Parts Manager Quadrupled Sales
and Transformed a Department
W
hen Ryan Meachem took the reins as
Parts Manager at Hyundai of the Shoals,
he found himself staring down the barrel
of a challenge: a Parts Department struggling to find
its footing. The dealership never had a Parts Manager
before and, with a mountain of obsolete inventory
weighing down operations, it was clear Ryan had his
work cut out for him. In just a matter of months, Ryan
transformed the department with a strategy that
combined airtight processes, expert
inventory management, and online
parts sales.
How did he manage to take a
department in desperate need of
strong leadership to a pinnacle of
efficiency and profitability? This is
Ryan's story of grit, innovation, and
the strategic use of modern selling
tools that has quadrupled sales in
Hyundai of the Shoals' Parts Department
in under a year.
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THE CHALLENGE: A DEPARTMENT
ON THE BRINK OF CHANGE
When Ryan joined Hyundai of the Shoals in October
2023, the sales volume in his first month hovered just
around $15,000. Ryan saw an opportunity for change.
Ryan transformed the
department with a
strategy that combined
airtight processes,
expert inventory
management, and
online parts sales.
His first order of business was to stabilize the department's
daily operations. " I knew I had to break bad
habits and create good ones for
my employees, " Ryan recalled. He
started with the basics: inventory
management. The team before him
didn't have a process for returning
unsold parts, which led to a stockpile
of unnecessary inventory collecting
dust. So, Ryan added a new system
for tracking special orders and keeping
a healthy stock rotation.
Ryan isn't the type to settle for simply
keeping things running. He knew

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