ADP Lightspeed Introduces New Parts and Major Unit Locator

SALT LAKE CITY, UT May 15, 2008 – ADP Lightspeed introduces its Parts and Major Unit Locator service. The Parts and Major Unit Locator is a searchable database of parts and major units supplied by a network of dealers who use ADP Lightspeed as their DMS and subscribe to the service. This service, now available on LightspeedNXT, expands a dealer’s searchable inventory to access items that other dealers post to the network.

The Parts and Major Unit Locator was developed to address two major issues with dealer inventory: 1. lack of inventory and 2. overage inventories. Dealers are faced daily with the challenge of finding the correct balance of stocking the necessary parts that customers want while not over stocking its shelves. By leveraging the largest DMS dealer network in the nation, ADP Lightspeed is giving dealers a powerful resource to address both of these issues.

“ADP Lightspeed’s focus is to increase dealers’ profitability by proactively searching for answers to the industry’s toughest problems,” said Laurn Rice VP of ADP Lightspeed. “The Parts and Major Unit Locator addresses one of the core concerns of doing business as a dealer: decreasing inventory expense, while not turning away sales.”

The Parts and Major Unit Locator allows dealers to post their inventory into a nationwide pool of parts that can be viewed by other dealers searching to fill requests for sales. This allows dealers to expand their viewable inventory and access new resources to sell their own inventory.

By posting inventory to the dealer inventory network each dealer virtually increases its sales force and potential customers by networking with other dealers. For the dealer this results and an additional tool to decrease special orders, delivery waiting times and over aged inventory. For the customers the locator improves their experience as they will not have to search multiple stores to find the vehicle or part they are trying to locate. This new convenience results in increased customer loyalty to the local dealership.

The development of this service required three major keys: the technology to query inventory databases, a large dealer network and the ability to tie the information and dealers directly to dealers’ DMS. ADP LightspeedNXT is the first Powersports industry DMS solution to have the ability to offer these three key components.

Dealers on NXT will have the ability to use the Parts and Major Unit Locator once they install SP 2 due out June 1. Searching the inventory is a free service; however posting inventory is an additional monthly charge. Posting dealers will be tagged for nightly automatic data pulls. The entire process of searching and posting inventory is seamless for dealers, by integrating all activities within the DMS.

ADP Lightspeed, based in Salt Lake City Utah, is a part of ADP Dealer Services, which provides integrated computing solutions to over 25,000 auto, truck, motorcycle, Powersports, and recreational vehicle dealers throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. ADP, with approximately $8 billion in revenues and 550,000 clients, is one of the largest providers of a broad range of premier mission–critical, cost effective transaction processing and information-based business solutions in selected markets on a global basis.