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: Evolution of Beef Cattle Farming

The Clear Conversations podcast took to the road for a special episode recorded in Nashville during CattleCon, bringing listeners straight into the heart of the cattle industry. Host Tracy Sellers welcomed rancher Steve Wooten of Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado for a wide-ranging discussion that blended family history and sustainability, particularly as it relates to the future of beef production.

Sustainability emerged as a central theme of the conversation, a word that Wooten acknowledges can mean very different things depending on who you ask. For him, sustainability starts with the soil. Healthy soil produces healthy grass, which supports efficient cattle capable of producing year after year with minimal external inputs. It’s an approach that equally considers vegetation, animal efficiency, and long-term profitability.

That philosophy aligned naturally with Wooten’s involvement in the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, where he served as a representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association. The roundtable brings together the entire beef supply chain—from producers to retailers—along with universities, NGOs, and allied industries. Its goal is not regulation, Wooten emphasized, but collaboration, shared learning, and continuous improvement.