OEConnection Launches CollisionLink V3
-- ONE CLICK PARTS ORDERING OF ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT PARTS --
RICHFIELD, Ohio, Oct. 28 -- OEConnection LLC, a premier provider of web-based supply chain, order management, and data mining and reporting solutions for the automotive and collision repair industries, is pleased to announce the launch of CollisionLink(R) v3, the company's next generation of its e-commerce ordering software for original equipment (OE) parts. Since its introduction, CollisionLink has helped progress parts procurement from the traditionally labor-intensive and error-prone methods of phone and fax to the increased accuracy and productivity of internet commerce. CollisionLink v3 advances the product's information-rich architecture with critically-acclaimed enhancements that deliver increased product ease-of-use and flexibility for the collision repairer and dealership supplier.
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New CollisionLink v3 feature functionality, targeted to repairers, includes the product's ability to accommodate every make and model enabling the simplicity of a single process for all OE parts ordering. On one screen, users can organize all OE orders for at-a-glance order status and confirmation with the added benefit of working in an online, or offline, mode. Integration with most major estimating and business management systems further streamlines workflow with the automatic detection of a newly created estimate for immediate population in CollisionLink. These enhancements build upon CollisionLink's value-added enhancement of providing repairers with a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) detail and decoding utility, often used to verify paint code, trim code, and other information critical to helping ensure order accuracy.
CollisionLink v3 also offers significant enhancements for dealerships' wholesales parts departments, providing the ability to display complete parts orders, including aftermarket and remanufactured parts. This feature provides dealerships the chance to bid on additional business while the addition of order scrubbing, used in the VIN validation process, helps save time and reduce returns with instant identification of incorrect or questionable parts.
Chuck Rotuno, President and CEO of OEConnection, commented, "CollisionLink v3 is a customer-driven, parts ordering innovation that offers an abundance of business benefits to repairers, parts managers, and consumers alike. In one tool, repairers and suppliers can manage all of their parts orders on a single screen, instantly validate parts for improved order accuracy and reduced returns, save significant time in order processing, help reduce repair cycle time, and increase the opportunity for incremental parts sales. Repairers and suppliers benefit from more efficient operations while the consumer is better assured of receiving their vehicle on the promised date. Quite simply, CollisionLink v3 provides win-win-win results for all involved."
An early adopter of CollisionLink v3, Paula Hornyak of Precision Body & Frame, Sandusky, Ohio adds, "CollisionLink allows us to easily send the entire order electronically to our dealer suppliers. In many cases, our dealers have been able to match the aftermarket price enabling us to use OE parts for everything. It's so much easier to get everything from one source."
Continues Hornyak, "The VIN details in CollisionLink is one of the best features ever. The system automatically gives us the information we need on paint codes, key codes, etc. without picking up the phone to call our supplier."
CollisionLink v3 is also being embraced by leading collision repair organizations with endorsements from CARSTAR, the industry's largest repair franchisee, and ABRA Auto Body & Glass, an innovative nationwide organization of company-owned vehicle repair centers.
Interested collision repair facilities and automotive dealerships are invited to self-enroll at http://www.oeconnection.com/ .
About OEConnection LLC
OEConnection serves over 11,000 franchised auto dealerships and collision repair facilities with web-based technology solutions that help improve efficiencies, increase customer satisfaction, and drive original equipment replacement parts sales. OEConnection is headquartered in Richfield, Ohio and is a joint venture of DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and ProQuest Company. For more information, call 1.888.776.5792, ext. 1875, or visit http://www.oeconnection.com/ .
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