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Hello and Welcome to the RhinoYards.com Tour!
The tour will lead you through many of the tools provided on RhinoYards.com and give you screenshots of many of the dialog panels.
You can either step through the tour in order by clicking on the NEXT button at the bottom of each page OR you can click on a button on the left of the page to skip around as you so desire.
The following information is presented to help you to get more use out of the tour: a quick introduction to some of the tools and an overview of how parts are bought and sold.
A Rhino Yard's part request is created by a part buyer to request one or more parts for a given vehicle. Once the request is created, the vehicle and part system inventories of Rhino Network yards are searched for a match.
When a match is found, the seller is notified via an EMail and a RhinoYards message. The seller can click on a link in the email and place a bid on the part. When placing a bid, the seller can (in addition to giving the cost and part condition): send pictures of the part that he has to sell, define when payment is due (ex. Before Part Ships, COD, etc.), the shipping options and associated cost and select a seller defined return policy.
When a bid is place on a part, the buyer is notified via email and a RhinoYards message. The buyer can click on a link in the email (or on a button on the message center page if reading the Rhino Yards message) and accept the bid (thus notifying the seller that his bid has won) or he can wait for additional bids.
The Part Status, stored for each requested part, makes part tracking easy (for buyers and sellers) as it identifies the part as: Open Bidding (a bid has not been accepted yet), Ordered (the buyer has selected a winning bid and the seller has not yet verified that he can deliver the part), Confirmed (the part is ordered and the seller confirmed that he can deliver the part), Shipped or Returned.
RhinoYards.com provides two types of inventory tools: Vehicle Inventory and Part System Inventory.
The Vehicle Inventory tool allows yards to input their vehicles or a range of vehicles (ex. All Ford F150). The Vehicle Inventory is searched whenever a part request is created and whenever a buyer uses the Vehicle Search tool. The advantage of using a vehicle inventory system (over a part inventory system) is the minimal amount of time required to keep the inventory up to date. No point of sale changes are required and adding a newly obtained vehicle can be done in seconds.
The Part System Inventory is for yards that specialize in selling a particular part system - such as engine, glass, etc. In addition to adding the part systems that your yard sells, the tool also supports a list of vehicle makes for those part systems. So if you sell engines for American cars, you can choose Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge etc. and a part system of engine to restrict the email notifications that you receive to only requests for engines for those given makes.
In an effort to reduce the need of phone calls between yards, RhinoYards.com provides two methods for yards to communicate: RhinoYards Messages and EMail. In addition to messages that one yard sends to another yard, RhinoYards sends RhinoYard messages and emails to the appropriate buyers and sellers when an action occurs that changes a part's status (ex. part request created, part ordered, part shipped etc.)
Rhino Yards Messages: these messages can be sent and read on the Message Center page, on the buyer's request management page and on the seller's bid management page. Messages are automatically sent when a part's status changes. Yards can view the latest changes to all of the parts that they are buying and selling by monitoring the Message Center page.
Email: Email messages are sent out when a part's status changes. For most status changes, there is a link in the email for the buyer/seller to open up a RhinoYards.com page to perform a suitable action (bid, accept a bid, etc.) on the current part.
Ok, now that we have covered some of the basics, we are now ready to discuss the first tool that most yards use after they register - INVENTORY.