Operations watchdog for garages and car dealerships
A repair order open for eight days, a backordered part blocking a promised handover, a courtesy car never returned: in a garage, these drifts surface when the customer gets angry. The watchdog spots them while there is still time.
In your day-to-day
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Alert when a repair order exceeds the date promised to the customer, before they call.
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Detection of backordered parts threatening a dated handover, with the supplier chase prepared and the customer notified if you authorise it.
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Flagging of courtesy cars out beyond the agreed duration and of completed repair orders whose vehicle is still on the lot.
How it works
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Continuous watch over your flows
Stock, orders, deliveries, payments, queues, systems: the watchdog reads your tools continuously and learns each flow’s normal behaviour.
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Signal, not noise
A seasonal variation is not an anomaly. The watchdog qualifies each gap — normal, watch, incident — and only alerts when action is useful. That triage is what keeps alerts trusted.
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The right person, with context
The alert reaches the person who can act, with the diagnosis: what, since when, how big, and first leads. Escalation is automatic if nobody acknowledges.
Typical results
4 min
from anomaly to alert, observed in production
24/7
watching, nights and weekends included
÷10
alert volume, thanks to signal/noise triage
Orders of magnitude observed in production; your diagnostic sets your own baseline and targets.
Frequently asked questions
Can the watchdog warn the customer of a delay before they notice?+
If you authorise it: on a qualified delay — backordered part, pending assessment — it notifies the customer with the new estimated date. An informed customer rarely calls back; a surprised one always does.
What data does it work from — DMS, workshop diary?+
The DMS first — repair-order statuses, parts orders, appointments — crossed with the workshop diary where separate. Without integration, it uses existing exports and reports.
How is this better than my current tools’ alerts?+
Your tools each alert in their own corner, on fixed thresholds, and often cry wolf. The watchdog crosses flows between tools, learns normal behaviour, and only interrupts when action is useful — with the diagnosis already done.
What exactly does the watchdog monitor?+
Whatever hurts you when it breaks: stock and stockouts, orders and deliveries, payments and direct debits, ticket queues, system availability. The scope is defined at the diagnostic and widens with trust.
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