Is your auto workshop bogged down by too many files & papers? There’s just not enough time of the day to keep track of all your important documents. Here are 3 ways your garage filing has been impacted & 1 way you can solve all 3 of them! 1. Missing Papers Paper-based work orders and invoices are tedious. Too much time is used when finding & writing a work order, verifying information, or simply updating a note. It can drive you crazy! Imagine trying to find and piece all the paperwork back together for tax season. Shudder. 2. Limited Visibility Some of workshop owner facing an invisible cost problem in financial reporting. Financial reporting can take up to six weeks. With the time taken to compile and send over the prior months profit and loss statement. The problem is, if we had a financial issue with our parts profit margins or another area of the business, almost 2 months had passes before we knew about it. That’s a huge amount of missed profit. 3. Talent Loss Workshop technicians consider the work environment to be the biggest factor that makes them stay or leave. Paper-based processes can be frustrating & slows them down from finishing more jobs. Mechanics are simply weighed down from scheduling, to inspections , to estimate creation, labor guides, and more. But all these processes can be made simply faster and easier when not done on paper. How? With POMEN Smart Workshop! POMEN Smart Workshop is Your Best Filing Solution What if finding all your important garage documents can be done from the comfort of your office? You could do it all digitally with POMEN Smart Workshop. With this newly launched Workshop Management System (WMS), all your work orders, invoices, & POs can be accessed whenever you need. Want to try it out for yourself? Sign up for a free demo below!

No more empty bays or idle mechanics when you let POMEN Smart Workshop help with daily garage management. From bay booking & mechanic tracking to marketing tools, this newly launched WMS offers you the right tools for each sales stage. What is POMEN Smart Workshop? POMEN Smart Workshop is our newly launched Workshop Management System (WMS), right here in Malaysia. An all-in-one workshop management software, you can utilize all 13 tools within the platform to manage your auto workshop & garage business efficiently. Created to ease the managing process in your workshop; beginning from work orders, booking, & maintenance up until your receive payments from customers. Now is the perfect time for your auto workshop to transition from pen & paper into a digital platform with POMEN Smart Workshop. How POMEN Smart Workshop Improves Your Garage Operations? No More Heavy Logbooks Say goodbye to heavy logbooks & faded out records! With POMEN Smart Workshop, your garage will never lose track of old records as you go paperless. Easily find your total sales, pending jobs, current mechanic tasks, & customer data all neatly stored within the WMS. In a fast-paced garage environment with high traffic & waiting customers, manually writing all information down in logbooks will slow you down. When you switch to POMEN Smart Workshop, you can easily find all the info you need in a just a few clicks. No More Confusing or Complex Filing Stressed out by complicated systems & archaic filing systems at the garage? No more frowns when you switch over to POMEN Smart Workshop. All you need is your laptop or mobile phone to keep track of your inventory & upcoming customer appointments. You don’t have to be an IT specialist to use POMEN Smart Workshop. The simple interface & intuitive tools provided within the WMS will transform the way you run your garage. Stand Out from Your Competitors Always be in the mind of your customers to stand out from your competitors. What better way than to connect with them directly through SMS & email marketing? Remind your customers about their upcoming maintenance & your current promotion using the built-in marketing tools in POMEN Smart Workshop. Excited to try POMEN Smart Workshop? All 13 tools in this powerful WMS are yours for free when you sign up for our free demo today!

The Pomen team with founder Syed Zulhilmi Tuan Sharif who is also CEO, second from left. Being stuck in the middle of the road from a car breakdown is a nightmare that can throw a spanner in our hectic everyday life.  Pomen Autodata Sdn Bhd (Pomen), which claims to be Malaysia’s leading automotive maintenance platform, offers 24/7 assistance for Malaysian drivers, connecting them to an ecosystem of registered workshops through its app. The perfect solution to help book or make reservations with the nearest workshop, Pomen introduced the service in 2019. The app takes its name from the Bahasa Malaysia slang used for “foreman”. To date, the app has been downloaded over 25,000 times with an average growth increase of 10% per month. Although the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting MCO brought a new set of challenges to businesses, Pomen sees the situation as a stepping stone to develop its business further. “We found that after the first MCO in March 2020, downloads of our app increased by 50%. Many car owners have taken the opportunity to perform services such as changing batteries and engine oil at home when the car is unutilised. With the POMEN app, they can easily make reservations with workshops at their own convenience. Convenience is the key as during the MCO, car owners seem to place both convenience and safety as their main priorities,” said Syed Zulhilmi Tuan Sharif, Pomen’s founder and CEO. Pomen Autodata is a Scaleup Malaysia company as well, from its recently announced second cohort. It received US$60,800 (RM250,000) funding. In another boost to the startup, Pomen’s latest update featured its collaboration with Petronas Lubricants Marketing Malaysia. This version includes the nine Klang Valley branches of Petronas AutoExpert workshops that are listed in the app’s directory of authorised workshops and are available for all POMEN members and users. While all users have to register their details to use the app, members need to register their car details as well. This helps Pomen monitor for fraud and unfair pricing. To date, there are more than 600 workshops registered in the app located around the Klang Valley, Johor, Penang, as well as in other major cities. Among the services offered include vehicle service, battery replacement or jump-start, tire replacement as well as repairing damage from accidents. In addition, the app has features such as real-time tracking services and transparent pricing. Users also enjoy free membership from the app to prevent any incidents of fraud by unauthorised workshops.  Pomen is a recipient of a US$121,500 (RM500,000) CIP Ignite (II) grant from Cradle and one of the winners of the Petronas FutureTech Accelerator Program that was selected from the Silicon Valley Immersion Program. The app can be downloaded on the Google Play Store platform or the Apple App Store or can be accessed directly at https://download.pomenapp.com. Original article : https://www.digitalnewsasia.com/startups/auto-maintenance-app-pomen-clocks-over-25000-downloads

POMEN Team Lead By Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Syed Zulhilmi Tuan Sharif Automotive maintenance platform, Pomen Autodata Sdn Bhd has collaborated with Petronas Lubricants Marketing Malaysia to make nine Klang Valley branches of Petronas AutoExpert available for Pomen users. POMEN’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Syed Zulhilmi Tuan Sharif emphasised that POMEN sees the situation as a stepping stone to develop the business further despite the challenges faced during the Covid-19 outbreak and the Movement Control Order (MCO). “We found out that after the first MCO in March 2020, downloads of the POMEN app increased by 50 percent. Many car owners have taken the opportunity to perform services such as changing batteries and engine oil at home when the car is unutilised. With the Pomen app, they can easily make reservations with workshops at their own convenience. During the MCO, people seem to place both convenience and safety as their main priorities,” he said. The perfect solution to help book or make reservations with the nearest workshop, Pomen first opened its doors introducing the service in 2019. To date, the app has been downloaded over 25,000 times with a positive gradual increase of ten percent each month. Additionally, there are more than 600 workshops registered in the POMEN app located around the Klang Valley, Johor, Penang, and in other major cities. Pomen is one of the CIP Ignite (II) fund recipients from Cradle and one of the winners of the Petronas FutureTech Accelerator Programme that was selected in the Silicon Valley Immersion Programme. The app  can be downloaded for free on the Google Play Store platform or the Apple App Store or can be accessed directly at https://download.pomenapp.com. Original article : https://www.businesstoday.com.my/2021/03/24/pomen-collaborates-with-petronas-to-continue-providing-digital-real-time-workshop-services/

Congratulations to POMEN who received an RM500,000 grant last week from Teraju Superb 2020. The SUPERB programme or formerly known as the Bumiputera Start-Up Entrepreneur Scheme known is a competition-based business pitching programme that raises new and imaginatibe business concepts as a competition theme. The key objectives of this initiative set up are to recognise competitive Bumiputera start-up entrepreneurs who bring creative and innovative methods to the development of their goods and enterprises. SUPERB has succesfully created 183 Bumiputera start-up entrereneurs and has helped to realise their business ventures at a higher level since SUPERB was launched in 2014.

POMEN is the top 20 in the 1st Batch of 500 Startup PETRONAS FutureTech accelerator POMEN has been selected among the 20 Startup in the 1st Batch of 500 Startup PETRONAS FutureTech accelerator program. PETRONAS FutureTech Accelerator. It is an 8-week accelerator program in Kuala Lumpur focusing on accelerating Malaysian startups looking for an opportunity to scale up their businesses regionally and globally.​POMEN selection in this will benefit to learn from Silicon Valley Growth Experts and PETRONAS Business Unit leaders to take POMEN to the next level.  Source : https://www.facebook.com/petronas/photos/a.433650348170/10157057186568171/?type=3&theater