(If you haven’t read parts 7 & 8 , stop now and go read them first) YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE GOAL WITH LEVEL SCHEDULING! In every department, Thursdays must look like Mondays and Tuesdays must look like Fridays!! For example: Your paint booth is open for business 5 days per week. So, every day the …
Ok, you will probably need to re-read this one a couple times. I am going to go through the math to help you figure out your shop’s current Customer Demand and how many cars or better yet, Billable Hours to bring in per day. With the data available to us nowadays, this should be simple …
At the end of last week, I was planning on discussing Blueprinting out of the gate this week. Then a light bulb came on and I almost missed the big elephant in the corner of the room. What about scheduling/inventory for incoming cars that will require Blueprinting?? Duh Greg! Sometimes I assume too much and …
In my shop, we have 11 pieces to the puzzle. 1. Sales 2. Dropoff 3. Check-in 4. Blueprinting 5. Mirror Matching 6. Body 7. Prep/paint 8. Build 9. QC 10. Delivery 11. $ in the bank. All eleven pieces are very important, but for time’s sake in the coming days we will discuss the Blueprinting …
Greg continues on here to explain understanding and measuring average hours per repair order (RO). He then explains his procedure when it comes to preparing an estimate. Whilst there are procedural differences in each country, take from every part of this series that we share with you, positive things that you can apply in your …
Hopefully you took some time and did an analysis of your shop using the 10 dimes exercise. If you didn’t do the exercise and you already have a near 20% net profit, I understand. If you didn’t do the exercise and you have say a 5,10 or even a 15% net profit, read these two …
Here is Part 3, remember some of the terminology might not feel right but the idea is to use this exercise to create a visual of your Profit & Loss. Enjoy the weekend! Cheers Gavin Remember our 10 Dimes? Now that we have $.50 of each dollar of our Gross Sales income left over after …
Now for the fun stuff. When it comes to understanding our business’s Profit & Loss statement, we have many roads we could go down. Be open-minded, the whole point of this series with Greg is to share how he learnt to read his Profit & Loss from top to bottom and the absolute necessity of …
Greg Lobsiger knows many shop owners that are living lives of near chaos! They are overleveraged, overworked, struggle with cashflow and unfortunately, many have a very limited understanding of how to read their Profit & Loss statement. Greg watched his grandpa and uncles; all retire from body shop ownership with limited incomes while working and …
Gavin McGahey from Planning Plus Software & Auto Body Shop Consultants had the opportunity to talk with a special guest all way from America, Mr. Greg Lobsiger from Loren’s Body Shop. Gavin came across Greg through Dave Luehrs, Elite Body Shop site where he was generous enough to do a 20-part series on profitability that …
