Tekion
Baker Tilly helps dealerships prepare for Tekion, navigate go-live, and improve operations, reporting and adoption long after implementation.
Helping dealerships get more value from Tekion
Automotive retailers are under pressure to improve customer experiences, increase operational efficiency and gain better visibility across their dealerships technology landscape. Many dealerships are working through outdated systems, disconnected processes and growing reporting demands that make it difficult to operate consistently across stores, gain visibility and drive growth.
Through Baker Tilly's alliance with Tekion, dealerships gain access to a modern, cloud-native platform along with a team that understands the dealership operational, financial and technology challenges that come with a DMS transition. Together, Baker Tilly and Tekion help dealerships prepare for go-live, navigate change and continue improving long after implementation.
What is Tekion?
Tekion delivers a cloud-native automotive retail platform designed to connect dealership functions including dealer management systems (DMS), customer relationship management (CRM), digital retail capabilities, analytics and operational workflows through a unified ecosystem.
Why Baker Tilly and Tekion?
Implementing a new DMS is more than a technology project. Success depends on leadership alignment, data readiness, operational adoption and a plan for what comes next after go-live.
Tekion provides a powerful platform built specifical for automotive retail. Baker Tilly helps dealerships prepare for the transition, support their teams through change and maximize the value of the platform over time.
Our teams help clients:
- Prepare financial, operational and reporting processes for go-live
- Validate data and support conversion readiness activities
- Align dealership leadership, accounting, service, parts and IT teams
- Support user readiness, training and adoption efforts
- Improve reporting visibility and operational insights
- Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement after go-live
- Build a foundation for future analytics, automation and AI capabilities
Key capabilities
DMS readiness and conversion support
Help dealerships prepare for and navigate DMS transitions through planning, validation, governance and operational readiness activities.
User readiness and adoption
Support dealership teams before, during, and after go-live through training, communication, and adoption strategies that drive confidence and long-term platform utilization.
Reporting, analytics and data visibility
Improve access to operational and financial information through reporting, dashboards, data validation and performance insights.
Process optimization and automation
Streamline dealership workflows, reduce manual effort and identify opportunities to automate repetitive operational and back-office activities.
Risk, controls and audit readiness
Support dealerships with SOX, ICFR, implementation controls, audit documentation, and validation activities to improve compliance, reporting confidence, and governance throughout the transition.
Post-go-live optimization
Help dealerships maximize value from Tekion through continuous improvement, operational refinement, reporting enhancements and future-state planning.
How Baker Tilly can help
Baker Tilly supports dealerships before, during and after the implementation of Tekion. From data readiness and go-live preparation to reporting, process optimization and ongoing operational support, we help dealerships realize greater value from their investment and build a foundation for long-term success.
Whether your dealership is modernizing operations, improving customer experiences or establishing a foundation for future growth, Baker Tilly can help you realize greater value from your technology investments.
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