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Groupe Saillant Now a ProgiPlanning Elite User
In the fall of 2019, Groupe Saillant started using ProgiPlanning, a capacity planning solution for collision shops. In addition to the CSR, the main users of the solution are Philippe Denoncourt, shop manager, and Jonathan Baribeau, production coordinator. At first, they found the assessment of [...]
Optimize your capacity by receiving and delivering every day
A common practice in the bodywork industry is to receive all vehicles on Monday mornings to hopefully deliver them on the Friday. In terms of productivity, this practice often leads to poor performance in the workshop or even exhaustion of team members. Why? First, bottlenecks [...]
Do you use the “.3” method to plan your shop’s capacity?
Canadian collision shops are usually familiar with the .3, a symbolic indicator in the industry. What is the mythical .3? To make things clearer, .3 is the number by which the total number of estimate hours for a repair is multiplied. The result is the [...]
