As an OEM or a Franchise Brand, how does your location-level reporting stack up against the reporting available to you at Head Office? Here are five reasons the reporting you deliver to your locations can be a game-changer for your business network: Boost Revenue & Growth: Revenue and business growth ultimately have to come from your network locations. Without visibility of location-level performance, you might be missing opportunities to drive growth and increase revenue. Embrace Automation: If you’re not automating the delivery of performance reporting through software, your teams are t ..read more

With the growing demand for Electric Vehicles (EVs), dealerships are faced with unique challenges. Getting individual sites and sprawling networks, across multiple territories and countries, ‘EV ready’ is hard and time consuming. Giving the right support, to the right site, at the right time is tricky.   Adding to that, how do you ensure sites have the right charging infrastructure and the right level of IMI (Institute of the Motor Industry) training? Do they have EV demo and showroom cars? And, if you are aiming to be Electric Vehicle Approved, are you on course? Are your sites equi ..read more

Loop, a leading dealer performance management platform, recently launched a new set of performance dashboards for the Audi sales and aftersales operation network.   Loop software combines cutting-edge business intelligence with action planning to create an intuitive platform that centralises data, facilitates collaboration, and drives improvement in KPI performance. Specialising in implementing centralised, customisable dashboards, the software simplifies data and ensures the right information reaches the right people, at the right time, so they can take actions to improve franchise ..read more

Loop, the leading franchise performance management software, has been recognised for boosting dealers’ bottom lines. We are shortlisted in the ‘IT Innovation of the Year’ category at the Motor Trader Awards 2022.  Loop has been shortlisted for demonstrating how we have “boosted the bottom lines of franchised dealers and helped to improve processes and efficiencies”. These include a 10% improvement in performance and efficiency across Volkswagen Group UK and 30% efficiency gains for Honda. We’ve also helped deliver a 13% uplift in retailer standards compliance for Lotus.  Loop’s Manag ..read more

Unveiled at the end of 2020 in-line with SoGlos’s expansion to cover business in the county, the SoGlos Gloucestershire Business Awards set out to recognise and celebrate innovative start-ups through to the top 100 businesses in the county, boldly shaking up the traditional awards format with a fresh new approach. Loop has been recognised for delivering performance and efficiency improvements for some of the biggest brands in automotive. These include a 10% improvement in performance and efficiency across Volkswagen Group UK, a 13% uplift in retailer standards compliance for Lotus, and 30 ..read more

Our double page ‘Supplier Spotlight’ feature in the May 2022 issue of Automotive Management explores how Loop has delivered improved business performance for dealer networks, including Volkswagen Group UK and Lotus: the limitations of traditional business intelligence (BI) software and why Business Performance Management with Loop is different efficiency and compliance gains for Volkswagen Group UK and Lotus the journey of Loop and our plans for the future Read the full feature here The post Double-digit efficiency gains thanks to Loop appeared first on Loop ..read more

Loop is shortlisted in the ‘Best New Product or Service’ category at the Automotive Management Awards 2022.  In a record-breaking year for the Awards Loop has been shortlisted for delivering performance improvements for automotive’s biggest brands. These include a 10% improvement in performance and efficiency across Volkswagen Group UK, and 30% efficiency gains for Honda.  Loop’s Managing Director, Simon Porri, is delighted that our work for our clients has been recognised. “We developed Loop with the aim to go beyond what other business intelligence software provides. In additi ..read more

Small changes repeated time and time again will become habits that can lead to big results. This is the premise of James Clear’s bestselling book, Atomic Habits. The challenge for companies that have geographically distributed teams, whether nationally or internationally, is lack of visibility. Are small changes being made, and if they are, are they being repeated and what’s the impact? The reason small positive changes aren’t repeated is that the impact or reward can be long term and humans are wired for instant gratification. A change might put a local team on the right trajectory to a posit ..read more

Business Performance Management (BPM) is an ongoing cycle of strategy, tracking, analysis and adjustment.  It starts with the identification of strategic business goals, which are then facilitated through operational planning and goal setting within different departments.  We look at 5 ways this can help retail networks to get a leading edge.  What makes your retail network special? The talent and passion of your teams? The experience and insight of your executive team? The trusted brands that you sell? While these all play a part, their contributions can all be enhanced with Bu ..read more

Loop, the leading franchise performance management software, is shortlisted in the ‘IT Innovation of the Year’ category at the Motor Trader Awards 2022.  Loop has been shortlisted for demonstrating how we have “boosted the bottom lines of franchised dealers and helped to improve processes and efficiencies”. These include a 10% improvement in performance and efficiency across Volkswagen Group UK, 30% efficiency gains for Honda, and a 13% uplift in retailer standards compliance for Lotus.  Loop’s Managing Director, Simon Porri, says: “What’s especially pleasing about being shortlisted ..read more