Aftersales Strategy

Post-Purchase Excellence: Elevate Your Aftersales Service

Ducker Carlisle’s Aftersales Strategy services empower OEMs and service providers to maximize post-sale value by enhancing customer retention, service efficiency, and operational excellence. Leveraging decades of automotive expertise and proprietary benchmarking tools, we deliver actionable insights across the entire customer lifecycle. From optimizing service lane technology and parts logistics to integrating sustainability initiatives and EV-specific strategies, our comprehensive approach ensures your aftersales operations are aligned with evolving customer expectations and market dynamics.

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Benchmarking Excellence in Aftersales Performance

Product Support Strategy

We design strategies for economical support of products throughout their lifecycle to effectively balance cost to serve with customer satisfaction and retention.

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Aftersales Commercial Excellence

We optimize commercial parts and service sales organizations, including organization design, processes, tools. and training, to improve sales team effectiveness and boost profit.

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Parts and Service Revenue Growth

We design strategies to grow high margin aftersales revenue through product, channel incentives, and commercial excellence.

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Customer Retention Strategies

We develop strategies to engage customers post-sale through innovative services, communications, and marketing to maintain loyalty and maximize customer lifetime value.

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Customer Lifecycle Strategy

We create a customer lifecycle journey that identifies evolving preferences through their ownership period and key inflection points where their support requirements change.

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Warranty Management

We optimize warranty policies, systems, and process execution to minimize warranty spend, maximize cost recovery, and improve warranty efficiency.

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Digital Aftersales Soultions

We help accelerate adoption of leading-edge technologies to proactively manage the aftersales customer journey and ensure seamless transitions between online and offline.

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Aftersales Strategy

Sustainable Practices in Aftersales Operations

Service Components

Streamline service delivery by refining workflows, systems, and customer interactions to improve satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Service Components
Distribution Strategies

Design efficient distribution models that expand reach, improve channel performance, and align product delivery with market demands.

Distribution Strategies
Inventory and Service Level Optimization

Balance inventory investment and service performance with data-driven strategies that reduce cost, improve availability, and elevate customer satisfaction.

Inventory and Service Level Optimization
Spare Parts Warehouse Fulfillment

Improve spare part availability, accuracy, and flow by optimizing warehouse layout, inventory systems, and fulfillment processes.

Spare Parts Warehouse Fulfillment
Aftermarket Parts

Optimize your aftermarket parts network to ensure efficient distribution, reduced lead times, and enhanced customer satisfaction.

Aftermarket Parts
Our Benchmarks

Revealing Strategic Insights: Ducker Carlisle's Thorough Benchmarking Approach

Ducker Carlisle hosts benchmarking studies dedicated to OEM parts and service spanning multiple global regions. View our benchmarks below.

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“Ducker Carlisle are the only true experts in this sector. They understood our needs better than we did and have been instrumental in getting our project across the line.”

Christine Baker
Head of Global Ops
Audi

“Ducker Carlisle are the only true experts in this sector. They understood our needs better than we did and have been instrumental in getting our project across the line.”

Christine Baker
Head of Global Ops
Audi

“Ducker Carlisle are the only true experts in this sector. They understood our needs better than we did and have been instrumental in getting our project across the line.”

Christine Baker
Head of Global Ops
Audi
Meet our Team

With worldwide coverage and unrivaled experience, we stand ready to support our clients wherever they are.

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Abey Abraham

Managing Principal
Abey is a Managing Principal at Ducker Carlisle where he leads Ducker’s automotive and materials practice, specializing in transportation, mobility, and electrification related client needs.
Abey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Michigan State University. He has over 15 years of experience in the automotive materials space, understanding key drivers and strategic elements of lightweighting, materials substitution, and joining, and expertise in metallic and non-metallic materials. Clients value Abey’s expertise and leadership in pursuing growth strategies (organic and inorganic) to optimize solutions to address dynamic mobility and lightweighting trends and its supply chain. Abey serves as the President of the Society of Automotive Analysts and is on the editorial advisory board for Lightweighting World Magazine. He is also an active member of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
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Kurt Ranka

Managing Principal
Kurt is a Managing Principal in Ducker Carlisle’s Automotive and Industrials strategic solutions practice, where he focuses on Aftermarket revenue management, price optimization, and supply chain improvement projects.
Kurt holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Management from Albion College, and a master’s degree in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He has 20 years of consulting experience for Automotive and Industrials clients covering pricing strategy, business case development and achievement, implementation, and optimization for B2B and B2C pricing across many channel structures. Kurt has also led many aftermarket operations and supply chain improvement projects for Automotive and Industrials clients. Kurt has authored industry research and thought leadership articles for Industrials clients.
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