Nestor Consulting / Advanced Analytics
From transaction data to a decision you can defend.
A cloud analytics platform that integrates with any ERP, turns its data into reporting people will actually use — and lets you model the decision before you commit to it.
How it connects
From transaction data to a decision you can defend.
Most businesses already have the data. It's sitting in the ERP, in a shape nobody outside finance can read. Our SaaS analytics platform connects to any ERP, pulls that data out and turns it into reporting people will actually use.
Because it integrates rather than replaces, you don't have to change your ERP to get better reporting out of it.
What-if analysis
Reporting tells you what happened. Scenarios tell you what to do.
Move the drivers your business actually runs on — labour rate, parts lead time, bay capacity, headcount, currency — and see the effect on margin, cash and throughput before you commit to anything.
Adjust the drivers
See the modelled effect
Drivers and outcomes are configured against your own cost model — the figures above are placeholders, not benchmarks. Scenarios can be saved, compared side by side and re-run as actuals change.
What-if in the workshop
Three decisions every service business argues about.
These are the questions dealership management meetings run aground on, because everyone has an opinion and nobody has the model. Each one is a scenario you can run before you commit capital or change a price list.
Do we add two more service bays?
Capital goes in immediately; the return depends on whether demand actually fills the bays and whether you can staff them with qualified technicians.
Do we move 20% of jobs to express service?
Express work turns bays over faster at a lower ticket value. Whether that helps depends entirely on where your bottleneck actually sits.
Do we raise the labour rate by 8%?
The margin arithmetic is easy. The retention question isn't — and that's the one that decides whether the increase survives the year.
Drivers we model for automotive service
- Bay count and utilisation
- Technician headcount and efficiency
- Labour rate and recovery
- Job turnaround time
- Rework and warranty jobs
- Parts lead time
- Stock holding and obsolescence
- Attachment rate per job
- Parts margin by category
- Back-order exposure
- Service interval compliance
- Retention and churn rate
- Service mix and ticket value
- Warranty versus paid work
- Campaign and follow-up yield
- Working capital tied up
- Receivable ageing
- Fixed versus variable overhead
- Currency movement on imports
- Break-even utilisation
Scenarios are built against your cost model and your actuals, pulled from the ERP rather than re-keyed into a spreadsheet. Each one can be saved, compared side by side, and re-run as the real numbers move — so the argument in the management meeting is about the assumptions, not about whose spreadsheet is right.
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Let's build something that moves your business forward.
Whether it's an ERP decision you're weighing up, a system that needs auditing, analytics you can't get out of your current setup, or a process that needs rethinking — start with a conversation.