Dealer Toolbox — Technology & Other Tools to Help Get Absorption Under Control

May 08, 2025

In this classroom session, hear from 4 different solution providers on how their tools can help you keep your aftermarket business singing.

With rising costs, fluctuating equipment sales, and economic uncertainty, dealerships must maximize service and parts revenue while reducing financial risks. Machinery Scope provides a solution built “by dealers, for dealers.”

CodifyWorks provides dealerships with a database of more than 100,000 model specific job codes, and model specific interactive inspection forms that provide labor quotes immediately, and ensures that the quoted amount is the same across store locations.

Modern helps fill a void left by Deere’s purchase of AgriSync. The tool allows dealers to document and photograph any damage on vehicles with time stamps at drop off. If an item is not approved to be fixed our cloud based software stores all existing work orders, approvals and declines to protect the store from being blamed for a part they offered to fix.

Vi by visorPro is an AI-powered knowledge assistant for equipment dealerships. Vi helps your team service and support your customers by leveraging information from your OEM’s manuals, the work orders in your business system and the knowledge in your technician’s heads.

You'll Learn: Tools & technologies you can put to use that will improve your process & translate to a better customer experience

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Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

Chapters: 00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest 01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck 12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem 14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain 20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder 24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest 26:30 Wrapping up

We're a 6th generation family farm in southeast Iowa showing the real ups and downs of pig farming and row crop farming. No script, just the work. Subscribe and follow along.

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