Five Integrated Solutions for Empowering Independent Heavy-Duty Aftermarket Companies

1. Accounting Solution 

AutoPower’s Accounting Solution goes beyond traditional accounting software by integrating accounting with the business operations critical to independent companies specializing in HD truck service, remanufacturing and parts distribution.  

This solution consists of three key modules:

• Accounts Receivable (A/R): Keep track of customer accounts efficiently with detailed statistical profiles, aging history, and invoice searches. Monitor sales by customer and product line, view customer profiles, and manage payment terms effortlessly.
• Accounts Payable (A/P): Avoid duplicate invoices and late payments, take advantage of early payment discounts, and manage vendor expenses effectively. Our software also seamlessly integrates with the Purchase Order module, enhancing purchasing and invoicing processes.
• General Ledger (G/L) 2.0: Gain maximum control over accounting transactions with flexible account setups, journal entry creation, and budgeting tools. Generate balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow reports to make informed financial decisions.

By incorporating accounting into a total end-to-end business solution AutoPower automates day-to-day processing, streamlines financial functions, and offers unparalleled insights into the company’s financial health.

2. Inventory Management Solution 

AutoPower’s Inventory Management Solution provides a systematic approach to efficiently managing what is typically an independent HD aftermarket company’s biggest capital asset and helps ensure customer satisfaction, as well as consistent profitability for the business. 

Ideal for both single locations or multiple branches, this solution combines the best of inventory planning and inventory control:

• Inventory planning allows a distributor to meet or exceed customer demands for products. Each product is constantly analyzed to meet demand, minimize inventory investment and maximize profit potential.
• Inventory control is managing the inventory already in single or multi-warehouse locations through a system of automated workflow processes that tell you what products you have, how much of each item is on hand, what is committed to a sale and what is on order, helping to minimize, the cost of fulfilling customer orders.

This proprietary optimization technology is “Profit by Intention” in action and combines all inventory activities related to inventory demand forecasting, replenishment and efficiently controlling currently stocked items. 

3. Warehouse Management Solution

To empower independent HD parts distributors to maximize profits, the AutoPower Warehouse Management System (WMS) is a best-of-breed solution designed to accelerate order fulfillment, enhance space utilization, eliminate error and damage, and maintain control of labor costs.  

This solution, when combined with warehouse best practices, can increase inventory turns and the efficiency of receiving, stocking, picking, and shipping. It is a powerful solution suitable for both single and multiple operations, with features that include: 

• EDI Advanced Shipping Notices: Real-time insights through advanced shipping notices from suppliers. 
• Barcode Scanning: Modernized warehouse efficiency that ensures accuracy, real-time visibility, and heightened productivity.
• Put-Away and Returns Processing: Efficient allocation of inventory to its designated location and management of return processes.
• Core Returns: Comprehensive visibility into core inventory, streamlined return processes, and efficient routing of core components back into circulation.
• Product Labeling: Streamlined product labeling for accurate identification, smooth traceability, and enhanced efficiency in inventory management.
• Strategic Bin Locations: Intelligent organization of inventory within the warehouse to minimize travel distances, enhance picking efficiency, and boost operational speed.
• Picking and Packing Operations: Accurate fulfillment, error reduction and precise processing further enhance customer satisfaction and confidence.
• Staging and Shipping Operations: Seamless transition from picking and packing to staging and shipping, helping you orchestrate these critical stages effortlessly, minimizing bottlenecks, enhancing order throughput, and ensuring timely shipments.

4. Service and Reman Management Solution

AutoPower’s Service and Remanufacturing software is designed to help independent distribution and service companies effectively operate and thrive in a market served by powerful competitors, including dealerships and large national service-center conglomerates.

This solution incorporates two key modules: 

• Service and Repair Module—provides the tools to manage both one-off, drive-in business work and lucrative longer-term fleet service contracts by streamlining shop processes with:

•  Direct integration to inventory
•  ntegration to rebuild processes
•  Tie parts to work order controls
•  Core management
•  Repair type kitting
•  Labor and repair type management
•  Labor bar code scanning stations
•  Smart repair bay planning
•  Time clock integration
•  Work order quoting and release tools
•  Purchase to warranty tracking
•  Repair history reporting
•  Service personnel efficiency reporting

• Assembly and Rebuild Module—manages and unites your prime business processes, such as recovery and utilization of cores in your remanufactured assemblies, and includes the following core management capabilities:

• Core eligibility terms by customer
• Map a core part number to the REMAN part number
• Core tracking – outbound and inbound (customers and suppliers)
• Core terms by customer and supplier by part number
• Core charge invoicing
• Core returns and credits
• Track cores in finished goods
• Financial core reporting

5. Sales and Pricing Management

The AutoPower system incorporates some of the most powerful sales tools and features found anywhere, all proven to help users compete effectively against national organizations and dealerships by driving customer sales, slashing order costs, creating new revenue and increasing business efficiency.   

This powerful collection of tools and features include:

• Customer pricing controls for single and multi-branch locations 
• Quotes and estimates
• Order entry and part lookup 
• Core sales, banking, returns and credits 
• Electronic data interchange
• WebPower e-commerce online store 
• eBAY Connect
• Credit card processing
• Point-of-Sale (POS) invoicing and barcode scanners 
• Point-of-Sale (POS) signature capture
•  AutoPower Inventory Network (AIN) access
• SalesPower mobile sales tool 
• Mobile delivery application

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