Sales, inventory and operations intelligence for automotive manufacturers and dealer networks — built by someone who did this work inside Honda and General Motors.
Regional sales data arrives in weekly spreadsheets. Dealer performance is compared on numbers assembled by hand. Inventory ageing is discovered too late to act on, and nobody can see daily unit performance without someone building a report first.
We migrate legacy Excel and Access reporting onto Power BI with automated data feeds from your DMS, ERP and sales systems, then build the executive and regional views that leadership actually opens each morning.
Daily unit performance visible to general managers without waiting on analysts. Dealer and regional comparison on consistent definitions. Inventory ageing surfaced while there is still time to move the vehicle.
What We Build
Executive view of units, revenue and margin by region, model and channel, refreshed through the day.
Consistent ranking across the network on metrics everyone agrees on, with drill-down to individual sites.
Days-on-lot by model and trim, flagging stock before it becomes a discount problem.
Workshop throughput, parts consumption and service revenue in one operational view.
Demand signals by region feeding allocation decisions with evidence rather than instinct.
Excel and Access reporting rebuilt on governed, automated Power BI models.
Proven Results
Technical Stack
Context
Automotive reporting has a structural problem: the data that matters most is spread across a DMS, an ERP, a CRM and a manufacturer portal, and none of them were designed to be read together. The result is that regional managers get a weekly spreadsheet assembled by someone who has become, without anybody deciding it, the most important person in the reporting chain.
The second issue is latency versus decision speed. Vehicle inventory ages daily and margin erodes with it, but if ageing is reviewed monthly the decision window has already closed. Reporting cadence has to match the rate at which the underlying thing actually changes, which for inventory and daily units is not monthly.
Having done this work inside both Honda and General Motors, the pattern is familiar: the analytical problem is rarely sophisticated, but the integration is genuinely hard and the definitions are contested. Solve those two and the dashboards are straightforward.
How It Runs
FAQ
In most cases yes. We have worked with database-level access, scheduled exports and REST APIs depending on what the vendor exposes. Where a DMS is genuinely closed, we build around its export mechanism rather than fighting it.
Once the pipeline is in place, dealer-level views typically refresh several times a day. We have delivered environments where regional managers see daily unit performance for the first time, which changes the conversation in weekly meetings considerably.
No. Manufacturer portals remain the system of record for warranty and incentive data. We integrate that data into a view that also contains your own sales, inventory and service numbers, which the portal cannot do.
Yes, and it is standard in our builds. Row-level security in Power BI lets one model serve the whole network while each dealer sees only their own performance alongside anonymised benchmarks.