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How Will Autonomous Vehicles Disrupt Fleet Management?, from Automotive Fleet. Publicly held corporations include risk factors in their annual reports that forecast potential market forces that may impact their business in the future. Recently, four

Top 5 Challenges of Field Service, from Core Systems. As anyone who runs a field service company knows, delivering superior customer service relies on keeping a number of processes running flawlessly, day in and day out. Recently, we’ve helped

Get into the online parts sales game with a parts e-Store, from OEC Blog. As a parts manager, you may feel perfectly at ease doing the level of parts sales you’re used to. Perhaps you feel your parts department couldn’t handle more business than

Time is constant. The amount of time we have in a day, week or year will never change. People say, “I don’t have time,” or “I need to find more time.” The fact is, you will never have more time than you do now. So the co

Say hello to the new auto shopper: the digital driver. With the rapid adoption of mobile devices and the increase in auto shoppers looking for information on the go, dealerships must adapt to these ever-changing trends. Your service department, in pa

Most of you reading this are either currently a sales manager or you were and are now a general manager or dealer. You know beyond any doubt that one of the hardest responsibilities you have is constantly finding something to keep salespeople motivat

During my last article, I discussed how a DMS is different than a standard accounting package or ERP. In the accounting department two of the biggest differences are schedules and financial statements. In a standard ERP, subsidiary ledgers could be c

Earlier this month, on February 3, 2015, Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) issued a new marketing compliance program labeled the Ad Standards Compliance Program. The Program contains many of the requirements we see in typical advertising rules i

Believe it or not, I probably get more questions about adverse action notices and risk-based pricing notices than any other topic. Let’s try to simplify and understand both: when you have to send them, and why. Adverse Action Notices Adverse action