Toyota's new parts strategy will have a direct impact on your service drive. They just announced that Japan's top 7 automakers are collaborating to standardize commodity parts their customers never see. Things like wire harnesses, steel grades, and plastics. The goal is to kill unnecessary complexity in the supply chain. Toyota estimates standardizing just one component, wire harnesses, could improve supplier productivity by a factor of ten. It means the landscape of parts management is about to change. Will this create new training requirements for technicians? How will parts ordering systems adapt? What happens to availability during the transition? What's the first question you'll ask your OEM rep about this? Watch the full episode at the link in our bio.