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Operating Hours: What are the most profitable operating hours?
技术
- 分析与建模 - 预测分析
- 分析与建模 - 实时分析
适用行业
- 汽车
适用功能
- 商业运营
用例
- 补货预测
- 过程控制与优化
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 系统集成
挑战
Executives at a leading auto service chain wanted to identify the optimal operating schedule for its locations. Given heavy customer traffic on the weekends, management planned to open its service centers two hours earlier on Saturdays, but first wanted to understand the total profit impact of the change. Specifically, the client sought to understand if the extended hours would generate a sufficient increase in sales to offset the associated costs.
关于客户
The customer is a leading auto service chain with numerous locations across the United States. The company is known for providing a wide range of automotive services, including maintenance, repairs, and inspections. With a large customer base and significant weekend traffic, the company is focused on optimizing its operations to maximize profitability. The management team is proactive in exploring new strategies and technologies to enhance customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. They are particularly interested in data-driven approaches to decision-making and have partnered with APT to leverage advanced analytics for their business operations.
解决方案
Using APT’s Test & Learn for Sites software, the client designed an in-market experiment to test the new hours in a representative subset of service centers and measure the incremental impact on profit. The software compared 'test locations,' where the hours were changed, to customized groups of similar 'control locations,' that did not undergo hour changes, to isolate the incremental profit impact of the operating hour changes. APT’s rigorous test-and-control analysis showed that the extended hours led to an 8.4% ($210 per location) lift in Saturday gross profit throughout the test period. The software revealed that the lift in profit came primarily from the extra hours and only caused slight cannibalization of mid-morning profits. However, while there was negligible impact on weekday profit, the analysis identified a 1.1% ($28 per store) decline in Sunday gross profit. Accounting for this cannibalization of Sunday profit and the required $170 in additional labor/operating costs per store, the auto service chain found that extending hours would cause a $43 decline in profit per store on average.
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