Garage Operations
Practical articles on running a workshop day to day: job cards, workflow discipline, parts inventory, and managing technicians.
Hiring Your First Service Advisor (and Why It Changes Everything)
The service advisor is the most undervalued role in a Kenyan garage: what the job actually is, when to hire one, what to look for, and how the right hire lifts revenue and retention at once.
Stopping Theft and Shrinkage in Your Garage: Parts, Tools, Cash, and Time
Shrinkage quietly takes a margin's worth of profit from most garages: how parts, tools, cash, fuel, and paid time leak, and the systems that stop each without turning the workshop into a police station.
10 Numbers Every Garage Owner Should Check Weekly
The garage KPIs that actually predict profit: revenue, profit per job, average ticket, approval rate, parts variance, receivables aging, no-shows, repeat rate, technician productivity, and cash position.
Managing Garage Technicians: Productivity, Accountability, and Keeping Your Best People
How to manage garage technicians without constant supervision: clear job assignment, fair productivity measurement, attendance, pay structures that motivate, and why good technicians really leave.
Auto Spare Parts Inventory Management: The Complete Garage Guide
How to run spare parts inventory in a garage: what to stock vs order, reorder levels, receiving and issuing discipline, counter sales, stock counts, and stopping the shrinkage you cannot see.
How to Streamline Garage Operations: A Step-by-Step Playbook
A practical playbook for streamlining garage operations: digitize job cards, standardize inspections, link parts to jobs, automate invoicing, and run on reports, with how Mech Connect handles each step.
How Garages Lose Money on Every Job — And How to Stop It
Most garage owners know their revenue. Few know their profit per job. Here is why that gap is costing you more than you think, and what a structured workflow does about it.