AutoTrader.com Ranks Highest in J.D. Power Study
autoremarketing.com
September 10, 2007 -- AutoTrader.com garnered top ranking in satisfying dealers with online buying services for new- and used-vehicle leads, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 Dealer Satisfaction with Online Buying Services Study.
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Pickup for Auto Makers May Not Last
Wall Street Journal
October 8, 2007 -- With gasoline prices hovering near $3 a gallon and the housing market in a slump, large pickup sales should be suffocating.
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Toyota’s Farley Jumps to Ford to Head Marketing
autonews.com
October 11, 2007 -- Jim Farley, a marketing star at Toyota Motor Corp., is joining Ford Motor Co. as group vice president of marketing and communications. Farley, 45, joins Ford in mid-November. He will be Ford’s senior marketing officer and will report to CEO Alan Mulally.
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Chrysler Confirms End of Volume Bonus Program
autonews.com
October 9, 2007 -- Chrysler LLC will end its controversial monthly volume performance allowance effective Jan. 1, replacing it with a $400-a-car payment that dealers get regardless of sales volume.
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DealerTrack Selected as DMS Solutions Provider for Asbury Automotive Group
October 16, 2007 -- DealerTrack Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRAK) and Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABG) today announced that Asbury has selected DealerTrack as its DMS solutions and technology partner.
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ARKONA PARTNERS

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DMS TIPS AND TRICKS

	Vendor Fraud and the Dealership The use of fictitious and/or fraudulent vendor names is just one way unethical employees take advantage of dealers. To remedy the situation, dealers are finding it worthwhile to investigate vendors having P.O boxes instead of street addresses or even vendors having the same phone numbers as past and present employees. Also, many dealers check to make certain vendors have federal identification numbers. Question: Using the Arkona DMS, how can managers help reduce misuse of the system when it comes to vendor payments? Answer: For users of DealerTrack's Arkona DMS, identifying fictitious or fraudulent vendors is accomplished with the Vendor Validation Report. This report is designed specifically to compare your vendor list with your employee master list and report vendors for review in the following groups: 1. Vendors with P.O. or Box in the address line or that have blank address lines. 2. Vendors with the same address and/or phone number as an employee. 3. Vendors with missing federal tax ID numbers. This report lists vendor number, vendor name, phone number, street address, tax ID, and employee number and name for vendors with matching addresses or phone numbers. A user must have security rights to both general ledger reports and payroll daily process to run this report To run this report, an authorized user can take option 34=Audit Reports from the General Ledger menu and take option 1=Select by Vendor Validation. Select the destination printer and press [ENTER] to print. An additional safeguard against fraudulent vendors for Arkona users is a popular preference in the general ledger. The "Federal Tax ID for Vendors Required" prompt can be found in the General Ledger Application Environment. When this preference is selected, no user can issue a check to a vendor without a federal tax ID.