OEConnection Takes D2DLink(R) Nationwide for Nissan Dealers
RICHFIELD, Ohio, Jan. 13, 2004 -- OEConnection, LLC, provider of supply chain solutions to the original equipment automotive parts industry, announced today that its rollout of D2DLink for Nissan dealerships has gone nationwide.
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The D2DLink online service helps dealers to streamline their parts procurement process and helps parts counter people to locate needed parts quickly and efficiently. This easy-to-use parts locator provides dealerships with daily-updated parts inventory and e-commerce ordering capabilities, and is available to participating dealerships 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Terry Russell, Parts Manager at Ray Hutson Nissan in La Crosse, Wisconsin said, "We're excited to now have D2DLink for our Nissan business, because we've been benefiting from its use in our Chevy parts business for over a year. We know the potential it has to help us become more efficient. We're very pleased that Nissan dealers now have this kind of parts department productivity tool available to them."
According to OEConnection CEO, Chuck Rotuno, "We began introducing Nissan dealers to the D2DLink product last summer and in just a few short months have brought on hundreds of dealers across the country. In many metropolitan areas, a majority of Nissan dealers have selected D2DLink, and our product is helping them boost productivity, increase parts inventory turns, maximize department efficiency, enhance profitability, and perhaps most important, increase levels of customer service and satisfaction."
More than 10,000 auto dealerships -- both domestic and import manufacturers such as Ford, GM, Land Rover, Jaguar, Isuzu and now Nissan -- subscribe to the D2DLink parts locating and fulfillment tool. OEConnection's D2DLink customers perform over 75,000 part searches each business day. Because D2DLink is an online product, subscribers can now spend far less time on the phone and more time meeting customer needs.
OEConnection will demonstrate its new Supply Chain Management and Order Management products at the NADA Convention in Booth #1001 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, January 31-February 3, 2004.
OEConnection is a provider of supply chain technology solutions for automakers, their affiliated dealers, and others in the automotive parts marketplace. The Company provides more than 10,000 franchised auto dealerships nationwide with D2DLink(R), a web-based parts locating and fulfillment service. The company also provides D2D Express(SM), a supply chain, emergency-needed parts backorder fulfillment product, D2D Plus(SM), a parts management and idle inventory reduction tool, and CollisionLink(R), an online service that enables collision shops to transmit orders for original equipment parts to franchised automobile dealerships. A venture created by DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and ProQuest Company, OEConnection is headquartered at 4150 Highlander Parkway, Richfield, Ohio, 44286, just south of Cleveland. For more information, call 1-888-776-5792, ext 1875, or visit http://www.oeconnection.com/
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