May 2022

WE HAVE SO MANY CARS, BUT WHY AM I MAKING LESS MONEY? ONSITE INVENTORY! Let’s say you’re a shop owner, whose shop has three weeks of drivable work scheduled out. You also have non-drives onsite waiting to get in. What happens when a customer who we will call Mr. Smith, shows up needing his car […]

(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