I stock 35-40; there’s me, but I’m part time as out buying, looking after workshop etc, and 2others and we’re generally pretty busy selling about 30-35 per month
Doing some maths and at 2x per month that’s 24 for the year and sales of around 1400 with a team of 3? seems very steep to me, probably high volume supermarket levels, but as Dan W says above it’s doable if profit isn’t the driving factor. If that’s their only measure of success and his target is purely volume sales and stock turn he’s OK as long as he has the freedom to price and re-price realistically. I’d be very surprised if that was the case though. How much autonomy as manager does he have. He needs to ask them about PPU in conjunction with how fast he sells, what are the sites profit targets or what do they look to achieve per unit, also sourcing stock, replacing the cars at 2 x stock turn would be my concern, does he have a say in what type of cars to stock, how in demand are they, how competively priced will they be. Also whereabouts in country he is is a factor, I’m in Midlands so lots of chimney pots, is he in the wilds of Scotland or Cornwall? And what marketing support does he have? In short Martin, I think he needs to draw up a business plan, talk to others like you and then sit down with his bosses and come to some agreement
hope this helps pal
