RICHFIELD, Ohio, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- OEConnection LLC, a leader in e- commerce parts exchange and analysis solutions for the automotive original equipment replacement parts business, announced a strategic alliance with The Dealer Services Group of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), a leading provider of dealer management systems (DMS) to car and truck dealerships. OEConnection and ADP have agreed to develop and deploy integration between their products to benefit their mutual automotive dealership customers.

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President and CEO of OEConnection, Chuck Rotuno, said, "This alliance is terrific news for auto dealerships because two quality organizations are joining forces to further streamline OE parts procurement. This relationship furthers OEConnection's mission of improving dealership efficiency and profitability through advanced technology and is a significant step toward enabling dealerships to take full advantage of the power of the Internet. Our team is excited to work with ADP to build a foundation for future opportunities and to provide dealers with end-to-end e-commerce solutions for OE parts."

Steve Anenen, president of ADP Dealer Services, commented, "As the industry becomes more automated, dealerships expect greater interoperability between the applications they use. ADP continues to look for integration solutions with established, value-added technology providers like OEConnection. We see significant advantages for our customers and the industry with this relationship. All with the common goal of helping dealerships sell parts more profitably, improve service cycle time and increase customer satisfaction."

Phase one of this project is the immediate integration of OEConnection's D2DLink parts sourcing system with ADP's w.e.b.Suite(TM) DMS products. That means with just one keystroke, thousands of ADP dealers can now access D2DLink's online database of parts locations saving time, eliminating duplicate data entry, speeding service bay transactions, helping reduce overhead in fixed operations departments and improving efficiency on every auto dealership transaction that requires OE parts. D2DLink has over 5.5 million unique auto part numbers in its daily-collected and updated inventory. The system is used 4 million times each month by an estimated 50,000 users at 12,000 auto dealerships nationwide.

Moving forward, potential synergies between OEConnection and ADP will provide dealers with wholesale parts e-commerce solutions between ADP's DMS and OEConnection's suite of dealership products.

In addition to providing nationwide dealership inventories, D2DLink is already accessible from select electronic parts catalogs, and provides inventory visibility to authorized tire distributor locations, alternate parts locations, and OEM parts distribution centers. With D2DLink now accessible from ADP's DMS, ADP dealers will soon realize these additional parts sourcing locations for even more advanced parts sourcing benefits.

About OEConnection LLC: OEConnection is a provider of web-based technology solutions for automakers, their affiliated dealers, and others in the automotive parts business. Serving over 12,000 dealerships and 2,500 collision repairers, OEConnection provides the industry's largest ecommerce parts exchange and analysis tools enabling users to better market, manage and move their original equipment parts inventory. Depended on for over 4 million parts decisions monthly, OEConnection solutions facilitate an estimated $8 billion in annual parts trade. OEConnection is a joint venture created by DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and ProQuest. The company is headquartered in the greater Cleveland area. For more information, visit http://www.oeconnection.com/.

About ADP Dealer Services: ADP Dealer Services provides integrated computing solutions to nearly 25,000 auto, truck, motorcycle, marine and recreational vehicle dealers throughout the United States, Canada, Asia, China, Europe and the Middle East. ADP Dealer Services is the third largest business unit of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. . ADP, with $8.5 billion in revenues and approximately 590,000 clients worldwide, is one of the largest providers of a broad range of premier, mission-critical, cost- effective transaction processing and information-based business solutions.

CONTACT: Janice Schenk of OEConnection LLC, +1-888-776-5792 x1891

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