R. L. Polk & Co.

When it comes to managing your inventory, you need to protect yourself against parts proliferation and obsolescence. The key is a strong understanding of your market, and it starts with Polk’s inventory management solutions.

Polk can show you all the registered vehicles on the road today, as well as the exact makes and models of the vehicles in a given geographic market. We can also help you analyze historical trends and cycles, and the demographic profile of a given area. So you’ll have a better idea of whether you should stock up or stop production.

Combined, Polk’s aftermarket intelligence and insight will enable you to:

Understand which parts to manufacture or which parts to stock
How to best plan your product catalog
Determine what parts no longer need to be produced
Trend a single part or product line over a 10-year period
Assess whether a part should be classified as obsolete
Forecast demand for your products or services

Polk will work with you to create Inventory Management solutions to address your specific business needs.

Polk National Vehicle Population Profile® (NVPP®)
A census of all currently registered passenger cars and light-duty trucks (GVW 1-3) in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. NVPP provides you with exact makes and models of vehicles in your markets and much more.

Polk Part Lifecycle™ System
The Polk Part Lifecycle System utilizes 10 years of historical car and light truck vehicle registration information that is linked to the AAIA® table to graphically depict a trend of a part number or product line.

Polk Tele-Plan®
Polk Tele-Plan combines NVPP® data with part manufacturers application-specific data to provide various analyses including manufacturer’s product line coverage reports and market-based product stocking guides on a national, regional or custom geographic basis.

Light VIO Forecast Report
This high-level, annual report illustrates what vehicle mix will be on the road over the next five years. It consists of actual history and forecasts of U.S. light vehicles in operation, segmented by passenger cars, light trucks and model years 1982 and forward.

Demand Forecasting
Polk combines its robust data files with your customer sales information and demographic/economic data to create a Custom Demand Forecasting Report to help you understand the key market drivers for demand of your product(s). We can forecast:

Part level demand
Segment demand
Regional demand
Total market demand

Polk RVIO (Recreational Vehicles in Operation)
A “snapshot” of all registered recreational vehicles on the road today. Make selections based on manufacturer, model, year, vehicle type, state, ZIP code and much more.