OVERVIEW
The right parts inventory is important to a successful parts department. D2D Plus - Parts Matching is a rules-based system matching selling dealers' idle inventory with shopping dealers' in-demand parts. Now, it's easier for D2DLink dealers to buy and sell larger quantities of discounted parts, and to help maintain the right parts assortment. Automatically!
Shoppers find sellers! Sellers find shoppers! You can set selling or shopping rules, and run inventory matches on-demand - as frequently as desired. The results show only those dealers with parts at or below the desired discount percent. And, transactions between dealers are not audited by OEConnection, so there are no sales or purchase commissions. This easy-to-use, add-on product can help dealers reduce idle and excess inventory and lower parts purchase costs.
HOW IT WORKS
Selling Dealers: Want help reducing idle inventory? Have excess stock? Parts Matching can help. Identify, price and offer slow-moving parts to Parts Matching shopping dealers as well as to dealers doing part searches on D2DLink. Selling dealers can actively contact shopping dealers that meet their matched parameters.
Establish your idle list using the flexible part selection criteria, determine your discount percentage, then run a match report. View shopping dealers who are looking for parts at or below your defined discount percent within the user-defined mileage parameters. Send shoppers an electronic offer detailing the total purchase offer, as well as part details. Then, you can sell your parts with no transaction fee to OEConnection.
Shopping Dealers: Need to reduce parts purchase costs? For parts you sell every day, want to buy them at a discount? Shopping for parts that other dealers have offered at a discount is quick and easy using Parts Matching. Shopping dealers can actively contact selling dealers that match their in-demand parts requests, at the targeted discount percent and within the user-defined mileage parameters.
Establish your list of in-demand parts just once using average days of supply and average parts sold per month. You can import your stock order or look for high-cost parts. Run a match report to find sellers who have your needed parts at your targeted discount percent. Select the parts to purchase, and with just a few keystrokes, buy the parts online using D2DLink's ecommerce capabilities. And, there is no transaction fee due to OEConnection.
Criteria for identifying idle or excess inventory for discounting:
- Average Days of Supply
- Average Parts Sold per Month
- Dealer Part Cost
- Parts Last Sale Date
- Parts in a dealer's DMS Source
- User-definable lists such as stock orders, phase-in or phase-out parts
Match Reports: Once selling and shopping dealers define their discounted and in-demand parts, those criteria are automatically and continually matched to other dealers' match reports. Run match reports as desired then contact other dealers, or wait to be contacted by other dealers!
BENEFITS
- Helps dealers reduce parts purchase costs.
- Helps dealers reduce idle and excess inventory.
- Helps increase parts department manager productivity by decreasing the amount of time needed to offer idle inventory in bulk to other dealers, and by decreasing the amount of time needed to shop for other dealers' discounted parts - in bulk.
- Parts managers that want to sell idle inventory can take an active role in pursuing shopping dealers who have matched parts needs.
- Can increase counterpeople productivity by helping to reduce single part order requests of discounted parts.
- Buying and selling of bulk matched parts - online - can help parts managers save office time. A few keystrokes and online orders are placed. Have parts to offer to a shopper? Send an email with just a couple key strokes.
- No per transaction fees or commissions associated with Parts Matching.
Getting Started
Call OEConnection at (888)776-5792 ext. 3 to speak with a sales representative and start using D2D Plus in your dealership today!
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