Recovering workshop labour can be a painful process
The clock is ticking
'Time is money' in all maintenance workshops. Essentially you buy and sell the time of technicians. Buying and selling the time of workshop personell should be the major source of revenue and profit in service workshops. Profits from the sale of spare parts; oils and lubricants; paint and materials; and sublet and sundry are all secondary to the buying and selling of workshop labour. If you don't sell time, you don't sell anything else.
The greastest loss in any workshop has two legs and walks out the door out at 5 o'clock
Just as you would take great care when buying and selling a spare part, you have to pay equal attention to buying and selling workshop personal time - or even more so, because you cannot 'stock' workshop personal time. In other words, if you don't sell their time today, you cannot sell it tomorrow. So once time is gone it's gone, whereas a spare part will still be in stock. So it is a good idea to know how much time you have for sale. This would seem pretty simple. If you have six workshop personal , and they are there eight hours every day, surely you have 48 hours for sale?
Increase workshop labour recovery rates
For a start, workshop personal might be in the workshop for eight hours every day, but they don't work on paying jobs for eight solid hours. For example, a customer could come back with a car that you serviced yesterday and complain that it keeps stalling. It will then be necessary for a productive to rectify the problem, and of course you cannot charge the customer for that. If it takes two hours, then you only have 46 hours left to sell, in our example.
Don't waste any more time!!!
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