American Honda Selects OEConnection's Online Technology for its Auto Dealerships
Internet-based CollisionLink(R) for Streamlined OE Parts Order Fulfillment to Collision Shops
RICHFIELD, Ohio, Sept. 19 -- OEConnection LLC, announced today that American Honda Motor Company and OEConnection will jointly engage to provide its CollisionLink Internet-based parts ordering and fulfillment solution to Honda and Acura dealerships and their collision shop customers nationwide. American Honda joins 11 other automakers already aligned with OEConnection and delivering advanced parts ecommerce technology that streamlines the collision original equipment parts procurement process.
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"We're proud to work with American Honda in providing our collision solution to Honda and Acura dealerships," said Chuck Rotuno, OEConnection President & CEO. "American Honda's new relationship with OEConnection furthers CollisionLink's business value, validation and importance in the marketplace, as well as confirms the significance of this technology for the thousands of dealers and collision shops already on board. We're confident our products will support Honda and Acura dealerships in enhancing parts department productivity, and facilitating increased original equipment sales opportunities leading to more profitable and successful businesses."
This agreement builds a foundation for Honda and Acura dealers to implement OEConnection's CollisionLink as a best practice with the expectation of improving dealership efficiencies and facilitating the growth of genuine parts sales. This technology will link Honda and Acura dealerships online to their wholesale parts customers, providing parts ordering tools to build their parts business.
CollisionLink enables collision shops to submit parts orders to their supplying auto dealerships online. Messaging and sending photos of hard-to- specify parts and schematics between dealers and shops enhances customer communication and customer service. Dealerships realize:
-- Reduced or frequently eliminated non-productive, order-taking phone
time
-- Faster order fulfillment by avoiding lengthy and time consuming parts
data entry
-- Automatic and instantly-verified part numbers against the vehicle's VIN
to improve order accuracy and help reduce parts returns
-- Visibility to the complete parts order including aftermarket parts,
along with the original equipment part equivalent to help dealers sell
more OE parts.
CollisionLink provides collision repair shops with:
-- An all-makes, all-models online parts ordering solution
-- Automatic integration from shop estimating systems and business systems
to CollisionLink ordering
-- More accurate parts ordering to help speed-up vehicle cycle time,
reduce supplemental ordering and reduced parts returns
-- Current OEM parts pricing for more accurate customer and insurance
repair estimates and invoicing.
The current CollisionLink solution was introduced in 2004, and has grown to include thousands of daily transactions processing millions of dollars of online orders. CollisionLink is available to auto dealerships and collision repair facilities nationwide.
About OEConnection LLC: OEConnection is a provider of web-based technology solutions for automakers, their affiliated dealers, and others in the automotive parts business. Serving over 15,000 dealerships, collision repairers, fleets and repair shops, OEConnection provides the industry's largest ecommerce parts exchange and analysis tools enabling users to better market, manage, move and purchase original equipment parts. Depended on for over 4.5 million parts decisions monthly, OEConnection solutions facilitate an estimated $8 billion in annual parts trade. OEConnection is a joint venture created by DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Snap-on Business Solutions. The company is headquartered in the greater Cleveland area at 4205 Highlander
About American Honda Motor Co.:
Honda is one of the world's leading producers of mobility products including its diverse line-up of automobiles, motorcycles and ATVs, power products, marine engines, personal watercraft and now aircraft. Founded in Japan in 1948, Honda began operations in the U.S. in 1959 with the establishment of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Honda's first overseas subsidiary. Honda began U.S. production of motorcycles in 1979 and automobiles in 1982. Honda products are produced using domestic and globally-sourced parts. The company has invested more than $9 billion in its North American operations, with employment of more than 33,000 associates, and annual purchases of more than $16 billion in parts and materials from suppliers in North America.
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