IA and CEO Justin Holman featured in Aftermarket Business World!

Take a look at the great article and interview by Brian Albright for searchautoparts.com and Aftermarket Business World.  Automotive sector expands investment in inventory analytics With the number of SKUs expanding and more and more companies moving to an omnichannel model for parts sales, inventory planning and demand forecasting in the aftermarket has become increasingly…

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Inventory Recommendations from Spreadsheet to Easy Street

One of our first clients in the Automotive Aftermarket was a manufacturer of replacement parts. They had developed their own in-house methodology for generating inventory stocking recommendations for their customers. They didn’t need us to reinvent the wheel. But, they had problems applying their methodology efficiently. They had built their system in Microsoft Excel and…

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How Many Honda Accords are there in New York?

This simple question is at the core of what VIO data are all about. Imagine the entrepreneur who has invented an innovative aftermarket replacement part. The part might fit dozens of different models but, for the sake of a simple illustration, let’s say it only fits the Honda Accord. So, finding out the vehicle population…

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Check out our article in The Green Sheet!

Do you subscribe to the green sheet?? Check out our article below! Aftermarket Analytics Launches Inventory Analyst  Not a subscriber? Catch it on page 12 in thier print addition! The Greensheet Issue #18-18 (Full) _ The GreenSheet (1)

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The Future of VIO

In a recent article the Economist declared that Data has surpassed Oil as the world’s most valuable commodity. Ironically, this value transition is also occurring in the automotive industry where oil still fuels the cars on the road but key data, such as vehicles in operation (VIO), now fuel decisions faced by automotive parts suppliers,…

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Amazon.com and the Drive to Sell Aftermarket Auto Parts

By now you’ve likely heard the news that Amazon wants a big slice of the aftermarket auto parts pie, and that Amazon has already made deals with some large parts manufacturers — Federal-Mogul and Bosch being a couple of these companies. We have had over a week to digest this news; admittedly it was received…

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