The AASA Technology Council (ATC) is a forum for networking and the exchange of best practices focusing on current and emerging technologies that support members’ efforts to reduce costs and improve efficiencies.
Key areas of focus include:
- Business processes
- Supply chain management
- Business intelligence
- Compliance
- Standards
- Data management
The ATC provides face-to-face and virtual forums for the sharing of ideas and best practices, especially those that directly affect the automotive aftermarket supply chain. Specific opportunities include:
- Annual Fall Conference — The only technology event in the industry exclusively focused on suppliers
- Annual Spring Meeting — One-day meeting for suppliers only to address industry challenges
- Customer Matrix — Enables suppliers to identify, sort, search and download the data/e-commerce standards and technologies required by aftermarket resellers
- Technology Vendor Directory — Enables manufacturer members to quickly identify companies that provide technology products and services for the aftermarket
- Online Member Profile — The ATC’s Virtual Birds of a Feather enables members to identify other members with similar software and hardware applications to contact them for sharing of ideas about vendor selection, implementation, training and governance. Application vendors, including affiliate members, are listed for reference.
- Initiatives — IT Outsourcing, Reverse Logistics, Internal Data Management, hosting and maintaining industry EDI standards and links to other industry standards
- Thought Leadership — Webinars, white papers, surveys and focus groups on specific and critical issues facing technology managers and users