Dealing with people who make it difficult to maintain order or keep good employees can be a very trying issue. 

Failing to deal with the situation can handicap your companies growth.

When recyclers get into the endless loop of "stop buying inventory to pay bills" and then "stop paying bills to buy inventory" it's time to take immediate and sometimes drastic action.  Failing to do so perpetuates the cycle we call "circling the drain". 

This article addresses the cause and effect of this situation.

You have probably heard me make the comment that most auto and truck recyclers are about 15-20% overstaffed. At the same time you probably could not imagine how you could get by with fewer employees.

This video is designed to explain how this works in the parts handling portion of your business.  We can do this at the same time we show the listener how to have more employee accountability.
Folks we can't keep paying more and more for inventory, cut our prices to match other recyclers and stay in business unless we can pick up income somewhere else or reduce overhead. This video is about getting more done with less people by having better work flow and payroll utilization.

Seven of the most important issues in our industry are covered in these videos. This information is so important that we broke it down into three videos. This is part 1 of 3 videos. This way you can view them as you are ready for the next measurement and what each means.

Click on the title and then the "here" in the red box which will appear to view Part 1 of this 3 part series.

Ours industry does not have what the customer is looking for over half the time.  That is why buying is the most important job in our industry.   By improving our buying and measureing what we buy we can  predict future sales and therefore budget sales for upcoming months.

We simply cannot sell more inventory than we have.  However, since many recyclers don't measure what they buy they don't realize they sell everything they buy.  This is often the reason sales fall off and we think it's just a bad week or a bad month.

Seven of the most important issues in our industy are covered in these videos.  We will cover the last 3 in this video. This information is so important that we broke it down into three videos.  This is part 3 of 3 videos. This way you can view them as you are ready for the next measurement and what each means. 

Click on the title and then the "here" in the red box which will appear to viewthe final part this series.

Ours industry does not have what the customer is looking for over half the time.  That is why buying is the most important job in our industry.   By improving our buying and measureing what we buy we can  predict future sales and therefore budget sales for upcoming months.

We simply cannot sell more inventory than we have.  However, since many recyclers don't measure what they buy they don't realize they sell everything they buy.  This is often the reason sales fall off and we think it's just a bad week or a bad month.

Two of the most important issues in our industy are covered in this video.  Measureing buying is so important that we broke it down into three videos.  This is part 2 of 3 videos. This way you can view them as you are ready for the next measurement and what each means. 

Click on the title and then the "here" in the red box which will appear to view Part 2 of this 3 part series.

Click on the title and then the "here" in the red box which will appear to download this product.

Ready to use practical job descriptions and procedures for employees who pull sold parts from shelves and vehicles. These are based on industry best practices. The job description outlines responsibilities, knowledge's, skills and abilities required in today's recycler operation. They also provide step-by-step detail in how to perform the jobs you need done. Each set provides you a 3 to 4 page job description and a list of procedures that can be easily modified to your business practices.

Ready to use practical job descriptions and procedures for your sales department which are based on industry best practices. The job description outlines responsibilities, knowledge, skills and abilities required in today's recycler operation. They also provide step-by-step detail in how to perform the jobs you need done. Each set provides a 3 to 4 page job description and a list of procedures that can be easily modified to your business practices.

Making sure new and current employees are following company policy and procedures is a major challenge for our industry. Most training is little more than "go watch Bill for a day" and then we throw them to the wolves. When they make a mistake, we lecture them, which is their next training session. An on and on it goes until the employee finally learns all the unwritten rules, we fire them or they quit in frustration.
Our manuals have the employee train themselves because you provide them with a daily questionnaire which the new employees must fill in each day as they work with a current employee. This way you can make sure they understand there job responsibilities because they have to write the current policy and procedure for each question on the sheet.

You can also use these questions to verify that current employees know what to do when a situation arises. These manuals take the work out of training and keep employees learning at a rapid and verifiable pace. You can also add questions to the training manuals to customize them to your business.

ick on the title and then the "here" in the red box which will appear to view the video and download the manual.

Making sure new and current employees are following company policy and procedures is a major challenge for our industry. Most training is little more than "go watch Bill for a day" and then we throw them to the wolves. When they make a mistake, we lecture them, which is their next training session. An on and on it goes until the employee finally learns all the unwritten rules, we fire them or they quit in frustration.
Our manuals have the employee train themselves because you provide them with a daily questionnaire which the new employees must fill in each day as they work with a current employee. This way you can make sure they understand there job responsibilities because they have to write the current policy and procedure for each question on the sheet.

You can also use these questions to verify that current employees know what to do when a situation arises. These manuals take the work out of training and keep employees learning at a rapid and verifiable pace. You can also add questions to the training manuals to customize them to your business.

ick on the title and then the "here" in the red box which will appear to view the video and download the manual.