Binstockly answers
Every answer below is aimed at a question people measurably search for, is written from named sources, and links to the page that handles the job itself. None of them is a landing page in disguise.
The answers here are the questions a parts operation asks around the stock rather than around the workshop: what a system has to hold before its reporting means anything, how the pricing matrix sets the counter price and what the counter actually keeps after the discount, and what a core is worth while it is in transit between the customer, your shelf and the supplier. Each one hands off to the guide it belongs to and to the free sheet that works its figure, with no account.
- Auto shop inventory software, judged by the record it keeps; also repair shop inventory management
What auto shop inventory software has to hold for a parts department, the four figures it should work, and the free sheets that work them now.
- Parts matrix: how a parts pricing matrix sets the counter price, and what it does to margin
What a parts matrix is, how the cost bands set the price, and the free margin sheet that shows what the counter actually took after the discount.
- Core return: what the charge is for, when the credit comes back, and what the record has to hold
How a core return works, why uncredited cores sit on the shelf as cash, and what a parts inventory record has to hold to stop them going missing.