Exchanging Idle & Obsolete Parts In Bulk For Dealer Parts Depts NADPE was founded by Shawn Larkin, a Fixed Operations Director, who saw the need for a practical solution to the dead and idle parts problem that every dealership has – a problem that affects every dealership’s bottom line by tens of thousands of dollars or more, amounting to a more than $2.1 Billion of Idle and Obsolete inventory sitting in parts inventory across North America. Driven by his personal frustration with the lack of viable, cost-effective solutions, he hit upon a breakthrough idea. The technology behind NADPE took two software teams four years to develop and is proprietary.