By holding both dealer and OEM owned inventory in a compound, so freeing up dealer space and enabling lower cost swaps, distribution centres have long been part of New Vehicle Supply best practice. In an era of omnichannel, and after a period of short supply and high build to order where much storage capacity was lost, has the distribution centre been rediscovered as a solution, and if not, why not? How can distribution centres deliver better availability, cost of stock and sales for national and regional markets?

If you would like to attend this webinar, please send an email to projectoffice@icdp.net and a Zoom invite will be sent to you,

Selected insights from the European research programme

At a time of significant challenge and uncertainty for the whole automotive industry, the need for reliable, actionable, and cost-effective insight has never been greater.  Through its collaborative research programme, consultancy, and data services, ICDP provides objective, fact-based analysis and insight to support automotive retail, distribution, and aftersales transformation, using our team of experienced industry specialists.

You are invited to join us for a free webinar on Monday 3rd March, when we will share some of the highlights of our recent work.  The topics we will be covering include: 

• The interplay of online and offline resources within customer buying journeys

• Agency – has its time come … and gone already?

• How dealers should approach the wave of new entrant brands

• The importance of the used car market to the EV transformation

• How the traditional boundaries between the OEM-franchised and independent aftermarkets are breaking down

We will also give an overview of our plans for the 2025-2026 research programme year, and you can find out how your business could get involved.

 We look forward to seeing you there!

For over 15 years we have produced forecasts looking at the size and shape of the aftermarket in key European markets, which have been shaped by trends such as changes to service intervals, the growth of electrification, and the clash between franchised and independent worlds.  Due to the size and complexity of the aftermarket, there is only so much we can cover – to address this we have recently created a flexible, scalable, aftermarket model to enable users to produce their own, user-defined, aftermarket forecasts, with the ability to pull various levers and explore different scenarios. 

In this open webinar, we will showcase our aftermarket model by using it to examine a range of scenarios, investigating how both the volume of repairs and the value of parts could be impacted by the pressures facing the aftermarket.  We will explore topics such as the impact of network reductions by looking at how capacity utilisation and parts volumes and values are affected, as well as how quickly new entrants can expect to generate meaningful aftersales volumes in a franchised network.

The aftermarket model is available to purchase, or we can use it in the context of consulting engagements for clients, so although we will illustrate a number of different scenarios during the webinar, the focus will be on demonstrating the potential and the flexibility of the model, in order to allow participants to determine whether this is something they would like to be able to use themselves in their own planning processes.

If you would like to find out more, please download the flyer HERE, and to receive a Zoom invite to the webinar, please contact projectoffice@icdp.net

More details to follow