How much repair capacity is hiding in your vans?
Eight questions on how your organisation manages materials: visibility, replenishment, ordering and first-time fix.
Get a score out of 100 and see where stock is costing you completed repairs.
Built with Stock Right Now, our partner for van stock.
Eight questions. Honest answers.
Answer for how things actually work today, not how the process manual says they should.
Practice 1 · Visibility
Do you know what's on your vans right now?
Where should we send your full result?
Your score out of 100, a reading for each of the eight practices and the two to look at first.
Your result
Where you stand, practice by practice
A conversation about your repairs service
Start with the free presentation: how housing organisations can complete more repairs, without more people, by changing the way the work works. If it speaks to you, you can request a complimentary one-hour discussion with Stuart Corrigan and Neil Alexander about your score from there.
The eight practices.
Each practice decides whether the part is on the van when the repair needs it. Why repairs fail in the van
Knowing what is on each van right now.
Setting van stock from actual usage.
One route to order, not a pile of portals.
Engineers not leaving jobs to fetch parts.
Linking second visits to missing parts.
Measuring write-offs, shrinkage and dead stock.
Knowing the money tied up in vans and stores.
One accountable owner for materials, end to end.
Stock Right Now provides stock-management technology and information to make the right parts available where repairs happen.
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