Prep Centre Live · AutoGrid DB

Enfield "Mega Centre" — 17 Suez Road, EN3 7SN · ~96,000 sq ft · 40–50 ramps. Flow: intake review → cosmetic (SMART / paint / alloys) → 150-point MPI → road test → QC sign-off → valet → photos → advert. A car isn't stock until it's photographed and live.

The north star · % of stock photographed

66.8% of 1,925 In-Stock vehicles photographed (1,286) · target 87.5% · 20.7 pts behind

Target 87.5%

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RED. To hit 87.5% we need 399 more cars photographed (at today's stock level). Media team shot 315 cars in the last 7 days — roughly 1.3 weeks of pure photo output, but stock is refilling behind it. Every unphotographed car is a car we're paying stocking interest on that nobody can buy.

Prep pipeline — where the 1,925 In-Stock cars are stuck Live

Awaiting mechanical

1,377

71.5% of stock without a completed mech date · 218 mech completions in last 7 days

Mega Centre workshop (150-point MPI, service, tyres, MOT). Ramp maths: 4 mech-hrs/car × 2 shifts = 12 ramps to clear 1,000 cars/month — the constraint is parts & people, not ramps.

Awaiting prep / cosmetic

717

37.2% of stock without a completed prep date · 311 prep completions in last 7 days

Bodyshop, alloys, SMART repair, valeting (~16 valeters). Philosophy: prep to fit age & mileage — never over-prep, that's how we stay cheaper than franchise dealers.

Awaiting photos

639

33.2% of stock with no pictures-taken date · 315 shot in last 7 days

Enfield media team. Photos are the last gate before the advert goes live — 20+ images per car is the aged-stock standard. No photos, no advert, no leads.

Stage flow & the blocker brain

Why are cards red? Soon

The deep-dive diagnostics brain — turns a red pipeline card into a named blocker with an owner.

Parts ETA — join open mech tasks to parts orders; a car isn't "slow", it's waiting on a £40 sensor. Surface the top 20 parts holding the most cars.
Ramp capacity & shift mix — live ramp-hours vs the 12-ramp/1,000-cars model; AM vs PM productivity split (PM team hit 96%, AM 51% — "less noise, more parts ready").
Photographer rota — cars QC-passed but unshot, by day waiting; flag when the photo queue outgrows the rota before the weekend push.

Quick-wins method: rank every In-Stock car by days-in-stage × stock value, take the top 50, and answer one question per car — what single thing releases it? Usually ~⅓ is a part on order, ~⅓ is a queue (ramp or camera), ~⅓ is nobody chased it. The third bucket is free money.

Stage code	Meaning	Action
Code Green	All sorted	Push to photos same day
Code Blue	In progress	Check parts ETA & labour award
Code Red	Danger / not completed	Controller escalation, daily stand-up

Stock cycle

Purchase → advert in days, not weeks. 48-hr prep SLA is the aged-stock playbook standard.

Intake review→ Cosmetic / SMART→ 150-pt MPI (45m)→ Road test→ QC (30m)→ Valet→ Photos→ Advert live

Dashboard KPIs mirror the AutoGrid Prep Center Overview: photo %, prep %, advert % across stages MPI · Service · Tyre · MOT · Cosmetic · Photo. Task pills: S · M · Ty · Po · Tr · AR · DR · CI · Ph · MOT · MPI.

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Source: AutoGrid master_report (status = 'In Stock'; date_pictures_taken / completed_mech_date / completed_prep_date) · queried live 19 Jul 2026 · latest stage stamps 18 Jul 2026 · read-only.