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Back End or Backbone? RV Parts Inventory Counts
Many coaches are manufactured with a rear-looking camera. Some of these cameras cannot be used except when the transmission is…
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Why Calculating Gross Turns Are Key to Inventory Management
The subject of this article — gross turns — relates to phrases from a song by The Byrds: “To everything…
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How Many Inventory Veterans Do You Have?
As a long-time RV industry professional, I appreciate RV PRO’s recognition of RV industry veterans. In preparing my column for…
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On the Level — For Now
Most of your RV customers require some type of leveling system to ensure that their unit is level and secure…
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Giving Your Storage Space Breathing Room
In more than 50 years of working with inventories of goods, I have discovered that one item has almost always…
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Achieving Inventory Accuracy, Part 2
This column is the second of a two-part series (click here for Part 1, which originally appeared in the March…
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Achieving Inventory Accuracy, Part 1
The new year has begun, and you might have recently completed a physical counting of the parts and accessories inventories…
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Increase RV Parts Sales With Point-of-Purchase Displays
As you are reading this issue of RV PRO, think back to your personal plans that you had to welcome…
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Parts Department Storage Best Practices To Boost Productivity & Sales
The December issue of RV PRO for 2025 focuses on the interiors of RVs. This caused me to think about…
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Calculate Your Ideal RV Parts Inventory Levels To Boost Profit
You may have noticed that November’s issue of RV PRO provides information related to jacks and levelers for your customers’…
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Does Your Dealer Management System Represent Your Inventory?
The title and contents of this article are intended to correct some possible misconceptions about what a dealer management system…
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Preparing for Winter in Your Parts & Services Department
Depending on the location of your RV business, winterizing might have a different meaning to you and your customers. …
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Attracting Qualified Candidates to RV Parts & Accessories Jobs
The theme of the May issue of RV PRO was women in the RV industry, and this month my column…
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How To Achieve an Accurate Inventory Count Without a Yearly Count
It is July and still a few months before your parts department will be processing the annual counting of the…
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How Suppliers, Customers & Staff Can Shape Your RV Parts Strategy
For this month’s column, I believe it is worth looking at your parts and accessories operations from the standpoint of…
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Sustainability of Parts & Accessories Inventories
Sustainability is the special theme for March’s issue of RV PRO, so I have dedicated my column to assist you…
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The 5 Steps of Finances
This month’s column focuses on the financial aspects of managing your parts and accessories operations. So that we are on…
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Grab These Cycle Count Bargains
This month’s special theme is centered on the two-for-one concept, so I have decided to piggyback on that theme for…
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Costs of Doing Business in 2025
The state of the industry is the primary theme of this month’s issue of RV PRO. Like most other industries,…
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Keeping Tabs on Fast-Moving Inventory Items
The primary theme of last month’s issue of RV PRO was the recognition of RV industry professionals who qualify as…
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What Are Your New Year Plans?
In a few weeks, we will bid adieu to 2024 and greet the new year of 2025. As in the…
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Your Personnel Need Your Personal Attention
In many of my columns since 2005, I have presented the importance of turning your parts and accessories inventories with…
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RECTifying Your Operations, Part 3
Editor’s note: This is the third part of a series highlighting repair event cycle time (RECT). Part 1 appeared in…
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RECTifying Your Operations, Part 2
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a series highlighting repair event cycle time (RECT). Part 1 appeared in…
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RECTifying Your Operations, Part 1
Repair event cycle time (RECT) is a popular topic of interest within the RV industry. Recent articles in RV PRO…
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SMI: Some Minimizing Ideas
In the May issue of RV PRO, I invited you to tune in to this June issue’s column for methods…
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SMI: Are You Exceeding Your Towing Capacity?
For those unfamiliar with the term SMI, it stands for “slow-moving inventory,” a phrase that I developed many years ago…
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Sustaining Your Parts & Accessories Customer Base
There has been substantial focus on the topic of sustainability in various media. Many corporations have established a sustainability officer/manager…
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Understanding Your Dealership Management System
What Does It Do? A dealership management system can provide reports of parts and accessories inventory performance that can –…
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The Times They Are A-Challenging
To improvise on a verse from a Bob Dylan song, “the times they are a-challenging.” For many businesses, these times…
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Optimizing Your Interiors
A section in this month’s issue of RV PRO focuses on RV interiors, so I have decided that my column…
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How to Prep Parts & Accessories for Next Year
2023 will soon be history, so perhaps – if you haven’t already done so – it is time to plan…
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Is Your P&A Inventory Prepped for the Winter?
It is September and to paraphrase a line from the song Autumn Leaves by Chet Baker: “… and soon we’ll…
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How Diverse & Inclusive Is Your P&A Inventory?
Diversity and inclusivity: How do these apply to your parts and accessory inventories? Since the theme of this month’s issue…
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Defining ‘WIMIN’
In this month’s column, I will be presenting two types of inventory management – the software offered by dealership management…
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