Trois-Rivières, February 26, 2021 — Progi, a Trois-Rivières IT firm specializing in the automotive and damage insurance fields has appointed Charles Aubry as major account manager for automotive paint companies in Canada and abroad. Upon joining Progi three years ago, this automotive parts specialist quickly [...]
Hello, This is Alex, from Progi. We occasionally hear good questions out in the field. In 2021, why should I buy recycled parts to repair my customers’ vehicles? Pretty darn good question. We sometimes get the feeling that body shops won’t buy recycled parts because of [...]
Whether selling new, recycled or aftermarket auto parts, the importance of getting the right information to our buyers remains the same. Are the parts we sell priced right? Really available? Of the claimed quality? When these three important factors are wrong, they can cause headaches [...]
The Little Big Story of ProgiPac At the turn of the 1990s Progi was born from ProgiPac, the legendary ERP* software dedicated to the world of recycling. Back then, there was a quiet interest in computerizing recycling centres, but it was risky. Computer equipment was [...]
Pierre Larocque tells Alexandre Rocheleau how he increased his shop’s performance in less than two months. "Increasing our capacity planning to the desired level had been a challenge for our shop for quite a while before the arrival of ProgiPlanning. With eight productive employees, the [...]
Is CarrXpert HM a shop like all the others? Just by looking at the building, we could say yes. But a closer look shows that the devil is in the details and that CarrXpert HM is a productivity champion. An uninformed observer might look at [...]
It may seem contradictory to think about sales if customers are not showing up. Generally, entrepreneurs would first want to reduce their costs, which is not a bad reflex. However, we often forget to ask ourselves: how can I do better with the clients at [...]
AS PUBLISHED IN COLLISION REPAIR MAG : Trois-Rivières, Quebec — Running a collision centre can be challenging—but ProgiPlanning has a solution. The first speaker at CCIF’s Virtual Experience was Charles Aubry, account manager at Progi. ProgiPlanning is not a management software, it is a state of mind. [...]
COVID-19 has greatly impacted the collision industry. Between March and May 2020, we’ve seen a 30% to 80% reduction in appraisal appointments from insurers compared to the same period in 2019. The lockdown has drastically reduced the number of collisions while insurers have been calling [...]
