The Network as the Platform Driving Change in the Automoble Sales and Service Experience

Arnold Clark Automobiles, Europes largest independent auto dealer, is using a Cisco network as the platform and an AeroScout Vehicle Tracking solution to transform automobile sales and service at its Stafford, U.K., dealership.

The network as the platform with the Wi-Fi RFID tracking solution enable the U.K. auto dealer to improve staff productivity and collaboration, deliver a positive customer experience, and help reduce expenditures and inventory depreciation, loss and theft while freeing up resources for alternative investments.

Arnold Clark Automobiles operates 145 dealerships across the United Kingdom with 8,000 employees and sells more than 200,000 vehicles per year. The flagship dealership, located in Stafford, maintains an inventory of 1,000 cars for sale at any given time on a 12-acre lot and 74,000 square-foot showroom.

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Tags:

• Arnold Clark Automobiles
• Boston Networks
• AeroScout
• Cisco
• Wi-Fi
• WLAN
• RTLS
• RFID
• Collaboration in Motion
• collaboration
• wireless
• mobility
• Context-Aware
• asset tracking
• Mobility Services Engine
• MSE
• new business models