Estimators, managers and all sorts of other Blueprint Optimization Tool users now can track their success adding operations flagged by the “BOT” as potentially overlooked repair labor.
The BOT software allows an accident repairer to automatically apply the “SCRS Help guide to Complete Repair Planning” to an estimate and identify overlooked items. The “Guide to accomplish Repair Planning” includes more than 1,000 operations a car body shop's staff might be performing during a collision repair but forgetting to say around the estimate.
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“I've been that guy who didn't believe that this would work for us, or that people could effectively increase the to the sheets. We are on a couple DRPs, and that i was shocked once they approved close to everything additional that people identified and captured on our first number of estimates we ran with the BOT,” Matt Linder, repair shop manager of Classic Chevrolet Cadillac of Denison, said inside a statement. “The net result is more operations that people didn't capture around the initial estimate, that we are now. It can make you think much more about what's necessary, your work on the technical level, and how that needs to be communicated around the estimate. I had been a skeptic, but I'm 100% in love with the worth it's generated for us.”
Another direct repair program shop also reported success with reimbursement for operations caught within the BOT.
“In short, we were missing a great deal that we had no idea or plan to,” Union Collision owner Nick Barbera wrote inside a testimony shared around the BOT website. “The BOT has helped us see that, and that i love the way the procedures go directly into the correct subheading from the estimate, and not just lumped at the bottom from the Misc. Operations. The good thing is that we have had zero push back from DRP's and Non-DRP business alike.”
SCRS said users found value in “the extensive listing of part codes, effectively minimizing supplements by creating cleaner, more comprehensive estimates the first time. Better documented repairs have been noted by BOT people to improve credibility with the bill payer while increasing efficiency in the growth and development of more consistent repair plans.”
Those thinking about the BOT may also watch live demos every Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. ET. Register here to look at the webinars.
