Dealership Parts Departments
OEConnection's innovative online systems are used hundreds of thousands of times each business day by over half of North America's automotive parts departments. Used to source and sell original equipment parts, these Internet-based products offer:
- Nightly data collection of complete parts inventory to the D2DLink parts procurement systems.
- Locate and buy parts online: OE parts at other dealership locations; at an OEM's parts distribution centers; at OE-authorized distributors including tires, accessories and OE/aftermarket parts manufacturers by OEMs to OE specifications.
- Sell OE parts to other dealerships, collision repair facilities, fleet and repair maintenance facilities.
- Determine, discount, offer and sell idle inventory.
- Shop for other dealers' idle, to reduce parts purchase costs and increase gross margin.
- Automatically offer idle to other dealers whose fast sellers are matched.
- Promote and offer parts on a parts department web site and shop other dealers' web sites.
- Fill OEM-needed emergency backordered parts.
Dealer programs include:
D2DLink® – parts sourcing, buying and selling – online – for an OEM's franchises, with inventory that is collected and updated nightly. OEConnection can customize this package to include parts supersession history and dealer visibility to the OEM's PDC parts availability. Authorized Distributors, and tire distributors can be included in the D2DLink parts sourcing solution, allowing dealerships to source ship-direct parts. D2DLink supports OE/authorized tire programs helping to streamline tire sourcing and automatic replenishment.
D2D Plus® – This umbrella of products is used by dealers to reduce idle inventory, and improve parts department efficiency and sales. Products include:
- Idle & Reporting: Online tools to help reduce idle inventory.
- Parts Matching: Sellers and buyers find bulk parts at a discount.
- Advanced Selling: Automatic idle inventory sales offers to potential shoppers.
- StoreFront: Dealership-customizable web page showcasing complete parts inventory to D2DLink dealers.
- Inventory Updating: Mid-day and Saturday updating.
- Bin Labels: Receive bin labels monthly for D2DLink parts.
Rapid Parts Search (RPS) – RPS speeds a dealer's part locating by integrating part searches from within the dealer's DMS into the D2DLink database of dealer inventory.
CollisionLink® – Dealerships accept Internet-based repair shop orders, reducing the need for phone and fax order fulfillment, speeding order processing, improving order accuracy with automatic parts verification against the VIN*, reducing returns with improved order accuracy, and showing counterpeople the order aftermarket and salvage parts with the OE equivalent, to help dealerships offer more OE parts at competitive pricing.
LinkIQ – This Internet-based, parts intelligence system provides dealerships with visibility to OE parts movement beyond their dealership for improved inventory efficiency. Advanced parts intelligence is gained by LinkIQ's comparison of dealership parts activity, such as sales, inventory levels and idle inventory levels, to aggregate groups of dealerships in user-definable areas providing missed opportunities, dealership rankings, and more. Reports are one click away, or delivered to a parts manager's email box.
RepairLink with MORE – Dealerships accept Internet-based fleet and repair facility orders from organizations handling onsite vehicle maintenance. RepairLink can reduce the need for phone and fax order fulfillment, speed order processing with bulk order/stock order fulfillment, improve order accuracy with automatic parts verification against the VIN*, and reduce returns.
D2D Express® – Fill OEM-needed backordered parts – online – and ship or deliver the parts for same or next day delivery, based on an automaker's solution rules.
DiscountPartsHUB®.com – Website available for all makes and models of auto dealerships to buy and sell discounted OE parts.
Tire Replenishment Tool (TRT) – Tire Distributors post their authorized tire inventory on D2DLink, and using target stocking levels, auto dealerships can automatically replenish tire inventory from their distributors.
DMS Connect is the integration of OEConnection online sales transactions with ADP Elite/w.e.b.Suite Dealer Management Systems. Dealers can improve efficiency, streamline parts sales and improve accuracy – all to help boost profitability – with DMS integration because of eliminated DMS order data entry and speeding order processing
* Call OEConnection for specific OEM availability