Auto Repair Workshop Economics: Job Cards, Technician Productivity & Efficiency, Bay Utilisation, Labour and Parts Pricing, Comebacks, Seasonal Tyre Service and Break-Even
Run an independent repair workshop on numbers instead of gut feeling. You will cost job cards against estimates, measure technician productivity and efficiency, fill bays and lifts, check the effective labour rate, price parts with a matrix, count the cost of comebacks, plan the seasonal tyre rush and storage and find break-even sold hours, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
In this course you run a fictional independent repair workshop in a spreadsheet. You price job cards on quoted hours with parts and consumables and measure the overrun by job type with SUMIFS. You turn attended, clocked and sold hours into productivity, efficiency and the overall rate, then compare booked with available bay hours and highlight bottleneck days. You calculate the effective labour rate, price parts with an XLOOKUP markup matrix and turn markup into margin. You cost comebacks, plan the autumn tyre rush and rack storage, and finish with break-even sold hours and the profit of adding one technician.
Lessons
- Job Cards: Quoted vs Actual Hours, Labour and Parts Lines, Consumables & the Invoice Pro
- Technician Time: Attended, Clocked and Sold Hours, Productivity, Efficiency & the Overall Rate Pro
- Bays and Lifts: Available vs Booked Hours, Bottleneck Days & Booking Slots Pro
- Effective Labour Rate: Discounts, Menu Prices, Warranty Work and What a Sold Hour Really Earns Pro
- The Parts Pricing Matrix: Markup by Cost Band, Parts Gross Margin & Customer-Supplied Parts Pro
- Comebacks and Rework: Rework Rate by Job Type, the Cost of Unbilled Hours and a Pareto View Pro
- The Seasonal Tyre Rush: Peak Weeks, Fitter Hours, Rack Capacity & Storage Income Pro
- Capstone – the Workshop P&L: Contribution per Sold Hour, Break-Even and Adding One Technician Pro