Recently Ideal Inventory Solutions was written up in the Automotive News after an extensive study by the publication into the overall effectiveness of the new vehicle ordering process and dealers' perceptions of it. Donna Harris wrote about our company because we launched specifically to address the issues dealers are facing when managing their new vehicle inventory. Until now dealers have been at the mercy of an inflexible and highly constrained allocation and ordering process. With the evolution of our website, dealers are able to wholesale and purchase both units in their physical inventory, as well as units that have been allocated to them but not yet built or shipped by the factory.
It is a very exciting time for our dealer network. They have much more control over their new vehicle inventory as a result of our site, and the broader our network becomes, the more efficient and effective the trading platform becomes.
Last week this theme was hit upon by a professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. I've linked below to both the Automotive News article as well as the blog entry by Professor Lariviere.
http://operationsroom.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/matching-supply-and-demand-in-the-auto-industry/
http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110110/RETAIL07/110109890/1422
www.idealinventorysolutions.com
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