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3 ways to improve auto repair profitability through analytics

How to use analytics to lower costs, enhance relationships and improve service.

By Rejean Godin | Updated on August 04, 2015
Data analytics can track progress across multiple areas for auto repair claims. (Photo: NAN728/Shutterstock)

In the quest to gain a competitive advantage in today’s aggressive marketplace, insurers can overlook a valuable asset already in their possession: auto repair claims servicing information. By putting analytics to work in this area, insurers can improve all aspects of the auto repair claims servicing process from appraisals through the repair costs to claim payments. With careful monitoring of the insurer’s relationship with repair service providers, it’s not just the bottom line that improves, but also experiences by clients.

Three main areas stand out for optimizing with analytics: appraisals, body shop management, and parts and labor. Using analytics to focus on these areas with information already available to the insurer will lower costs, enhance relationships and improve service. In addition, claims managers obtain a better overall picture and are more informed and ready to extrapolate future trends.

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