Introduction

VisionPLUS® is a comprehensive group of value-added programs from BASF designed to help you run your business more efficiently and more profitably. Operating a refinish distributor or bodyshop in today’s business environment requires you to stay one step ahead of your competition, and VisionPLUS® provides you with the tools to do so. By using cutting-edge eBusiness technology, proven business practices, and by monitoring emerging industry issues, you can be sure that your business is ready for the future. VisionPLUS® offers a wide variety of different programs, such as:

• VisionPLUS® OnLine
• VisionPLUS® University
• Facility Layout Planning
• VisionPLUS® “20 Groups”
• Warranty

VisionPLUS® OnLine

VisionPLUS® OnLine is an industry-leading interactive tool, which collision center managers and owners can use to monitor and help improve the performance of their businesses. VisionPLUS® OnLine has already helped improve the productivity and profitability of countless bodyshops.

• Business Analysis
  Utilize the power of the Internet to provide superior business analysis for up to 100 Key Performance Indicators.

• Sales & Marketing Concepts
  Learn how to market your bodyshop based on promoting your facility’s strengths and assuring customer satisfaction.
• Cycle-Time Measurement and Analysis
  VisionPLUS® OnLine will keep you ahead of the competition by using the latest techniques for evaluating your business.
• Complete Business Solutions
  Best practices, forms and worksheets pertaining to every area of your business.

VisionPLUS® Warranty

The keys to a successful collision repair center are quality and service. The kind of service that will bring customers back the next time they need a repair. VisionPLUS® Warranty provides collision repair centers with a powerful sales tool by allowing them to offer their customers a lifetime warranty on BASF Glasurit® and R-M® refinish systems. While it is doubtful that a vehicle repaired with a quality BASF refinish product will need a warranty repair, our Lifetime North American Refinish Warranty will set your customer’s mind at ease. By covering a customer’s car against such problems as cracking, hazing, chalking, fading or peeling, you can guarantee that the customer is getting the highest quality finish in the world.

VisionPLUS® Performance Groups

For more than a decade, refinish manufacturers have been using non-competing discussion groups to evaluate how shops from the same regional area are performing. These gatherings, known as "20 Groups," have become popular and valuable in today’s business world. The knowledge of BASF’s expert force of Business Development Managers combined with the efficiency of BASF’s eBusiness tools, results in a better process for continuous business improvement.

The key to VisionPLUS® "20 Groups" is simple:

• Better People
  BASF’s Business Development Managers, the right people with the right experience to deliver the best customer value.
• Better Tools
  The most efficient tools to support the best process and the best people.
• Better Process
  An organized and structured process of continuous business improvement.
  VisionPLUS® "20 Groups"... leading the way to the 21st Century.

VisionPLUS® Facility Layout

Our VisionPLUS® Facility Layout program is designed to set up your facility in the most efficient way possible. Maximizing the efficiency of your layout will help improve workflow and throughput, which will increase both productivity and profitability. There is nothing more important than the layout of your facility. The following features are available on VisionPLUS® OnLine:

• Model Facility Plans
  Online CAD layouts of fifteen different plans ranging from 5,500 to 32,000 square feet.
• Interactive Capacity-Calculator
  Enter a few key factors, and the Capacity-Calculator will help you determine the business capacity of any proposed layout.
• Custom CAD Layout Service
  BASF’s professional architect has designed hundreds of shops and can provide a CAD layout for any existing or proposed body shop space.
• Related Layout Services
  BASF’s architect is experienced in discussing aspects of design with shop owners’ architects and builders.