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Introducing Inventory Management Industry Certification by VINCUE

Master the full used vehicle lifecycle. Plan smarter, buy better, manage tighter, and sell faster, with an industry-first certification built on VINCUE’s playbook and delivered on the RockED app.

Built by VINCUE. Delivered on RockED. Available to every dealer.

4

journeys

1.5 hr

total content

free

for your team

Why it exists + What it covers

The inventory framework the best stores run on.

Dealership teams have always learned inventory management the hard way — fragmented, on-the-job, inconsistent across roles and locations. Meanwhile, the gap between high-performing and underperforming stores keeps growing.

VINCUE spent thousands of hours working alongside dealers on real lots, obsessing over what actually works across inventory planning, acquisition, management, and sales. This certification makes those standards accessible to everyone.

The four journeys

These journeys will take you through the complete used vehicle lifecycle, from first decision to final sale. Finish all four and pass the capstone exam to earn your certificate. What you get back is faster turns, stronger margins, and a team that operates the same way across every rooftop.

  • Journey 1: Plan
    Align your inventory strategy to your specific market. Use market data and key vitals to build a buying plan aligned to real demand. Stop guessing. Start planning.

  • Journey 2: Buy
    Master appraisal signals, trade-in processes, service lane acquisition, and private-party sourcing. Acquisition is where profit is made or lost.

  • Journey 3: Manage
    Optimize inventory performance daily. Control recon timelines, sharpen merchandising, and price to the market with activity-based strategies.

  • Journey 4: Sell
    Convert inventory into revenue with speed, precision, and maximum profitability through digital visibility and structured follow-up.

Easy Pass

Scan to jump straight in. Already on RockED? You’ll land on the certification. New to RockED? You’ll hit the app store first.

Earn something worth putting on the wall

Complete all four journeys and the capstone exam to earn the Inventory Management Industry Certification, co-signed by VINCUE and RockED leadership. Add it to your LinkedIn, your office wall, your store’s sales floor.

  • Co-signed by Danny Zaslavsky (VINCUE) & Matthias Stoever (RockED)
  • Unique Certificate ID for verification

  • Issued instantly with 80%+ score required

  • Valid for 60 days & updated annually
Inside the App

Three steps to get your team certified

1. Download the RockED App

2. Sign-up or Login to RockED

  • If you’re a VINCUE user, you can login or signup with the same email you use for VINCUE.
  • If you already use RockED for your OEM, dealership, or another vendor, you can login normally.
  • If you have never used RockED before, you can create a new account using your work email.

3. Complete all four Journeys

Find “Inventory Management” in the Certifications Center. Finish every journey and pass the capstone exam to earn your certificate. Free on RockED.

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