AI-Assisted Advertising Starts With Inventory Management

Inventory Management is a free app in the Sandhills Cloud that lets you enter, edit, remove, and advertise assets across all Sandhills Global brands. You only need to enter or import inventory once into IM to advertise it on any applicable Sandhills trade site, as well as your Sandhills-hosted website.

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Inventory Management’s list page lets you filter assets by type, current status, ownership, and more. You may sort them by model year, stock number, manufacturer, aging, price, and other parameters. You can also perform bulk actions on multiple assets, such as transferring inventory from one company to another during an acquisition or sending a consignment package to an auctioneer. To enter an asset, click Add Inventory. You can edit a unit’s description, mileage/hours, pricing, and location right on the list page. Buttons on the right allow you to edit an asset more in-depth, perform an inspection, and generate a quote. Other buttons help you put items up for sale on AuctionTime or Equipmentfacts through an auctioneer, book transport for assets via FR8Star, and arrange for financing with CurrencyFinance.

How It Works

The artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced Inventory Management platform supports equipment, trucks, trailers, attachments, and parts with category-specific data, as well as recreational vehicles (RVs), livestock, horses, hay, and much more. Any updates you make in IM propagate to every online location where the asset appears.

IM walks you through the equipment onboarding process, which asks first for the specifications most important to the asset’s value. To help you set pricing, it displays values from the industry-leading FleetEvaluator tool and predicted values over the next year from FutureCast.

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Click an asset’s name or the Edit button to open its details page, where you can add many more specifications, review pricing data, display the unit online, attach service logs, and much more. The color-coded progress bar at the top indicates how many specifications you’ve entered that significantly affect the asset’s value. The more you enter, the more accurately FleetEvaluator can determine its values, and the more visibility your asset will have when buyers use filters to find equipment with specific features. To help you set pricing, IM offers values from FleetEvaluator, depreciation predictions from FutureCast, and real-world selling and asking prices from MarketTrends.

What’s New

IM uses AI to help you enter inventory by reading serial numbers and vehicle identification numbers (VINs) from a photo of the plate. This not only avoids common typos, but also pulls in make, model, and other info associated with the SN/VIN. AI can also select an appropriate primary image for your advertising if the first photo does not show a clear view of the asset, and if you don’t rearrange your images manually.

More recently, IM lets you create a Quick Quote for parts as an email, printout, or PDF. Also, you can also export up to 10 units of inventory at a time to Facebook Marketplace without manual entry. Your Sandhills representative has details.

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Click Add Image to upload photos, videos, and even 360-degree pictures. Drag and drop images to rearrange them. Inventory Management’s AI can read a photo of an asset’s VIN/serial plate to fill in make, model, and other available information. AI can also select a primary image for your advertising if the first photo does not show a clear view of the asset, and if you don’t rearrange your images manually.

Key Benefits

• Comprehensive asset management solution
• Single-entry inventory for all Sandhills brands and your hosted website
• AI assistance
• Updates automatically sync everywhere
• Retail, auction, wholesale, lease, and rental options
• Import and export support