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Live Market View Q4 2022 Market Report | vAuto

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Author Randy Kobat

With 2022 just about in the rear-view mirror, how would you assess your used car sales? Answer honestly. Now watch the year-end edition of Live Market View with Randy Kobat as he discusses how dealers that won the year did so by changing their used car approach. They’ve moved away from a velocity method and – with the help of ProfitTime GPS – adopted a variable method of management to appraise and price inventory to identify the earners and turners. Check out the 4-minute Q4 report by vAuto.

About the Author

Randy Kobat is vice president of operations and inventory management solutions for vAuto, Rebates & Incentives, KBB ICO and related products. In this role, Randy oversees all aspects of operations and performance for these companies and segments of Cox Automotive, helping them meet their respective goals for growth, product development and integration, and customer and employee satisfaction. Randy brings a unique blend of executive leadership expertise to vAuto that includes long-term planning, marketing, mergers and acquisitions, operations, sales management, and strategy development. Prior to joining Cox Automotive, Randy successfully held a variety of top-level leadership positions for automotive-related companies including Service Repair Solutions Inc., Trilogy Enterprises and CDK. Randy has also served as a business leadership lecturer for the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University, the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and other business schools. Randy earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Northern Illinois University and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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