Pricedex Awarded for Outstanding Service to Detroit Diesel

Detroit Diesel Corporation (DDC), a unit of DaimlerChrysler, is widely acknowledged as having an industry-leading product and parts information management system that has resulted in significant gains in efficiency, parts ordering speed and accuracy, and greatly improved customer service levels.

Now, the company that developed the software solution that helped DDC achieve these gains - Pricedex Software -- is being recognized for its work: Pricedex has been named recipient of Detroit Diesel's Outstanding Service Award for 2006.
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Good, Better, Best: What you need to know when considering a PIM Solution

When aftermarket executives talk about Product Information Management (PIM) solutions that are available today, there isn't much agreement on what they mean by PIM. Some believe PIM is essentially a parts management application; others believe it focuses primarily on catalog and publishing capabilities; and still others may confuse it with a PLM solution (engineering-oriented software).

None of the PIM-type solutions available today are equal in their overall capabilities, architecture, implementation timeline or price.

So it is critical to understand what PIM is - and isn't - and how, with the right vendor, it can be implemented as a total end-to-end solution, or in stages as "chewable chunks." This article segregates the types of systems available into appropriate categories - Good, Better, Best -- and provides a self-assessment scorecard to help determine your ranking in terms of a PIM strategy.
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HD or Light Vehicle, Up or Down Economy, a Good PIM System Delivers the ROI

While heavy-duty truck sales are expected to decline this year due to heavy 'pre-buying' in 2006 to beat the 2007 emissions rules, parts sales are expected to jump due to the growth in the rolling stock population. And they're expected to remain relatively strong for the next few years. That's great news for parts makers, distributors and dealers alike.

That doesn't mean everything is rosy for the heavy-duty market. On the contrary, like the light vehicle market aftermarket, the heavy-duty aftermarket has its challenges, too, and some of them are virtually identical to those of the light vehicle market.
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