Is Your Service Department Designed for Peak Performance? (French)-Is Your Service Department Designed for Peak Performance?

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In this training program, Daniel Surprenant discusses the factors that affect the optimization of a service department in order to achieve peak performance. He highlights key areas such as speed of execution, availability of parts, specialized tooling, and customer interaction. Surprenant emphasizes the importance of evaluating the department's performance, identifying and reducing losses of technicians' time, and building trust with the parts department. He also discusses the need to prepare, recondition, and sell machinery and the financial aspects of profitability. Surprenant presents key performance indicators that service departments should consider, including gross profit margin, absorption, return on assets, and sales growth. He encourages the implementation of effective management practices, such as managing by walking around, improving communication and collaboration between departments, and establishing solid processes for special orders. Surprenant also emphasizes the importance of coaching employees and empowering them to deliver excellent service. He concludes by urging listeners to reflect on their service department's performance and make necessary improvements to achieve profitability and optimization.

Keywords

optimization

service department

peak performance

evaluating performance

financial aspects

profitability

performance indicators

effective management practices

excellent service