Marketing Idle to Reduce Returns
Helping dealers better market idle and excess inventory helps OEM networks reduce returns while freeing up valuable working capital. OEC® Parts Marketing Solutions target the root cause of returns by offering dealer personnel multiple means to market bulk and single-part idle to qualified buying markets. These include:
Targeted Online Sales Channel
- OEC offers the automotive and heavy-duty truck industries' largest original equipment parts buying community. This closed parts exchange facilitates OEM-specific dealer-to-dealer trade, expanding sales territories beyond normal markets to nationwide exposure.
- OEC also operates an all-makes open buying community of more than 2 million discounted original equipment parts, enabling dealers to reach all potential buyers.
- Proven to reduce average idle inventory by over 24%, these sophisticated online tools range from custom dealer store fronts to automated "sales forces" that match buyers and sellers of in-demand idle and discounted parts.
- Data analysis tools also help dealers better price and market idle.
Idle Marketing Self-Serve Tools
- Proven to reduce average idle inventory by over 24%, these sophisticated online tools range from custom dealer store fronts to automated "sales forces" that match buyers and sellers of in-demand idle and discounted parts.
- Data analysis tools also help dealers better price and market idle.
Parts Brokering Services
- Recognizing that dealers may not always have the time to manage idle inventory on their own, OEC offers trained parts personnel to broker buy/sell functions on behalf of dealerships.