Aftermarket Business: Confrontation or Collaboration?Business Editors MEMPHIS Memphis, city, ancient Egypt Memphis (mĕm`fĭs), ancient city of Egypt, capital of the Old Kingdom (c.3100–c.2258 B.C.), at the apex of the Nile delta and 12 mi (18 km) from Cairo. , Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2003 After months of silence, AutoZone agrees to openly discuss one of the most controversial topics facing today's automotive aftermarket Aftermarket See: Secondary market. aftermarket See secondary market. . It's been eight months since AutoZone surprised the aftermarket with its intentions to adopt a process called Pay-On-Scan (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale ). Questions remain about the viability of such a plan, which requires vendors to own their inventory until it is scanned and sold at the stores. Are vendors willing to implement it? Can they afford it? Will it make life in the aftermarket better or worse for distributors? And how will it impact the vendor community? AutoZone views implementation as a collaborative process requiring a new line of thinking. Vendors must "focus on sales through AutoZone, rather than to AutoZone," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Sr. V.P. of Merchandising Brett Easley. In an Exclusive Interview in the August issue of Aftermarket Business, Easley discusses POS and its impact on the auto parts Auto parts are components of automobiles. They mainly are, in alphabetic order (only car specific articles or articles with car section):
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