• The Industry Challenge
• AutoPower’s Integrated Approach
• Service & Repair Module
• Assembly & Rebuild Module (Reman)
• AutoPower Versus Generic Shop Management Software
• Business Benefits
• Frequently Asked Questions

The Industry Challenge

Heavy-duty aftermarket distributors and service organizations operate in one of the industry’s most demanding environments. They face challenges far beyond simply repairing trucks. Every day they must manage customer repairs, warranty work, preventive maintenance, remanufactured components, technician productivity, inventory availability, and thousands of valuable cores moving through multiple facilities. Traditional shop management software often addresses only the repair order while leaving inventory, accounting, purchasing, pricing, and core management disconnected.

All the while, customers expect faster turnaround times, accurate estimates, consistent pricing, real-time parts availability, detailed repair histories, and rapid warranty processing. At the same time, companies must carefully manage expensive inventories, coordinate technicians, schedule bays, purchase replacement parts, monitor labor efficiency, and maintain complete financial visibility.

For companies involved in remanufacturing, the complexity grows exponentially. Every remanufactured engine, transmission, turbocharger, steering gear, differential, injector, or hydraulic component depends upon efficient management of reusable cores. Missing cores, inaccurate deposits, delayed returns, poor inspection processes, and disconnected inventory records can quickly erode margins and create unnecessary write-offs.

Many organizations attempt to solve these challenges with separate shop management systems, accounting software, inventory applications, spreadsheets, and manual processes. Unfortunately, disconnected systems create duplicate data entry, inconsistent information, delayed reporting, and operational inefficiencies that affect every department.

AutoPower’s Integrated Approach

Unlike generic repair shop software that focuses primarily on work orders, AutoPower treats service and remanufacturing as integral parts of the entire business by managing the entire service and remanufacturing lifecycle inside one integrated ERP environment.

Every service transaction automatically connects to inventory management, purchasing, accounting, pricing, customer history, warranty administration, sales management, warehouse operations, and financial reporting.

This integration allows every department to work from a single source of information:

• Service writers know inventory availability before committing to repairs.
• Purchasing knows which components must be reordered.
• Accounting receives transactions automatically.
• Management gains real-time visibility into profitability.
• Warehouse personnel receive immediate picking requests.
• Core managers know exactly where every recoverable component resides.

Because every business process operates from one database, organizations eliminate redundant data entry while dramatically improving operational accuracy. AutoPower delivers this through two modules: the Service & Repair Module and the Assembly & Rebuild Module (Reman).

AutoPower Service & Repair Module

This is a fully integrated component of the company’s ERP solution, designed specifically for heavy-duty aftermarket parts distributors, repair facilities, remanufacturers, and multi-location service organizations. It streamlines the complete service lifecycle within a single system that shares real-time data with inventory, purchasing, accounting, pricing, and customer management.

Unlike standalone shop management software, AutoPower’s Service & Repair Module provides end-to-end visibility across both the service operation and the broader business. Service managers can schedule work efficiently, monitor job status and profitability, ensure parts availability, capture labor and material costs accurately, and deliver faster, more consistent customer service. The result is improved technician productivity, tighter cost control, greater billing accuracy, and higher profitability for heavy-duty aftermarket service organizations.

AutoPower streamlines every stage of the service workflow, from customer check-in through final invoicing:

• Work Order Management — Create, schedule, and track every repair order from check-in to final invoice in one system.
• Repair Estimating — Build accurate, consistent estimates with real-time parts pricing and availability.
• Technician Management — Assign jobs, schedule bays, and monitor technician productivity.
• Labor Tracking — Capture actual labor time against each job for accurate costing and billing.
• Parts Integration — Commit parts to work orders with live inventory availability across locations.
• Purchasing Integration — Trigger replacement-part purchasing automatically from service demand.
• Customer History — View complete repair, sales, and warranty history for every customer across all departments.
• Warranty Administration — Process warranty claims quickly with the documentation already in the system.
• Preventive Maintenance — Schedule and track recurring maintenance to keep customer fleets on the road.

See the Service & Repair Module in action. Request a free demo or call 800-229-2881.

Assembly & Rebuild Module (Reman)

This module empowers organizations to manage the complete rebuild lifecycle within AutoPower’s fully integrated ERP platform. By connecting remanufacturing operations with inventory, purchasing, accounting, sales, and warehouse management, the module provides complete visibility into costs, materials, labor, and profitability while improving productivity and reducing rebuild cycle times.

Comprehensive Core Management

Core management is far more than simply charging a deposit. AutoPower tracks the complete lifecycle of every core throughout the organization.

From the initial sale of a remanufactured component, the system records:

• Original customer
• Core charge
• Return deadline
• Expected core
• Core status
• Return authorization
• Inspection results
• Financial disposition

This complete visibility dramatically improves recovery rates while reducing lost assets. (See how distributors turn core management into a reman profit center.)

• Core Deposits — Charge and track accurate core deposits automatically at the point of sale.
• Core Return Processing — Manage return authorizations and deadlines so eligible cores come back on time.
• Core Inspection — Record inspection results and grade returned cores for rebuild or disposition.
• Core Inventory Management — Know exactly where every recoverable core resides across facilities.
• Reman Production Tracking — Follow every assembly through the rebuild process from teardown to finished goods.
• Cost Tracking — Capture materials, labor, and overhead against each rebuild for true profitability analysis.
• Component Traceability — Trace components through rebuilds for quality and warranty accountability.
• Financial Integration — Post every core and rebuild transaction to accounting automatically.

Unlike standalone reman systems, AutoPower automatically posts financial activity throughout the rebuilding process. Core deposits, credits, inventory valuation, labor costs, purchasing, work-in-process and finished goods all update accounting automatically. This eliminates reconciliation while improving financial accuracy.

AutoPower Versus Generic Shop Management Software

Generic shop software is typically designed to create repair orders, invoice customers, and schedule technicians. While these capabilities are important, they address only one portion of the operational picture.

AutoPower extends far beyond traditional shop management by integrating every service transaction with enterprise inventory, purchasing, accounting, pricing, warehousing, sales, customer management, and remanufacturing operations. The result is a unified business platform that supports both operational efficiency and strategic decision-making across the entire organization.

Business Benefits

AutoPower’s Service & Reman Management module delivers measurable improvements across every aspect of heavy-duty aftermarket operations. By integrating service, remanufacturing, inventory, accounting, purchasing, pricing, and core management into one ERP environment, organizations eliminate manual processes while improving operational visibility and financial control.

In the shop, real-time inventory visibility speeds repair turnaround, streamlined workflows raise technician productivity, and better labor utilization and scheduling keep bays full. Estimates become more accurate, and customer communication more consistent.

Across departments, duplicate data entry disappears, inventory accuracy rises, purchasing becomes more efficient, and warranty administration more precise. Accounting updates happen automatically, reducing administrative effort throughout the organization.

In the reman operation, core recovery rates climb while core losses and write-offs shrink, and management gains complete visibility into remanufacturing operations — with integrated cost tracking that enables true profitability analysis and enterprise-wide reporting for informed decision-making. The end result: improved customer satisfaction through consistent service experiences.

For heavy-duty aftermarket parts distributors, service centers, and remanufacturing organizations, AutoPower delivers more than a shop management system. It provides a comprehensive ERP platform that unifies service operations with every critical business process, helping organizations improve efficiency, maximize the value of recoverable cores, strengthen financial performance, and build a more profitable service business.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is AutoPower’s Service & Reman Management software?

It is two fully integrated modules of the AutoPower ERP platform: the Service & Repair Module, which manages the complete service lifecycle from customer check-in through final invoicing, and the Assembly & Rebuild Module (Reman), which manages the complete rebuild lifecycle including core management. Both share real-time data with inventory, purchasing, accounting, pricing, and customer management.

How is AutoPower different from generic shop management software?

Generic shop software is typically designed to create repair orders, invoice customers, and schedule technicians. AutoPower extends far beyond that by integrating every service transaction with enterprise inventory, purchasing, accounting, pricing, warehousing, sales, customer management, and remanufacturing operations — one database, one source of information for every department.

How does AutoPower track cores?

From the initial sale of a remanufactured component, the system records the original customer, core charge, return deadline, expected core, core status, return authorization, inspection results, and financial disposition — the complete lifecycle of every core across multiple facilities. This visibility improves recovery rates while reducing lost assets and write-offs.

What remanufactured components can the system manage?

Any core-based rebuild operation, including remanufactured engines, transmissions, turbochargers, steering gears, differentials, injectors, and hydraulic components. The Assembly & Rebuild Module tracks materials, labor, work-in-process, and finished goods for each.

Does the Service & Repair Module handle warranty work and preventive maintenance?

Yes. Alongside work order management, repair estimating, technician management, labor tracking, and parts and purchasing integration, the module includes warranty administration and preventive maintenance, with complete customer repair histories available across all departments.

How does the software handle accounting during rebuilds?

AutoPower automatically posts financial activity throughout the rebuilding process. Core deposits, credits, inventory valuation, labor costs, purchasing, work-in-process, and finished goods all update accounting automatically — eliminating reconciliation while improving financial accuracy.

Turn Your Service Operation Into a Profit Center

Since 1978, AutoPower has helped heavy-duty aftermarket distributors, service centers, and remanufacturers run their entire business — service, reman, cores, parts, and accounting — on one integrated platform. Want the full feature rundown? Take a deeper dive into Service & Reman.

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