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At PDI, we believe in the power of intelligent business alliances.
We ally with industry leaders that share our passion for meeting
the technology needs of retailers in the convenience store industry.
The following is a description of the services offered by our
preferred business allies.

Point-of-Sale (POS) Integration

Autogas Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 6957
Abilene, TX 79608
(915) 676-3150
www.autogas.com

In the early 1990's, AutoGas responded to the market's demand for integration technology and increased efficiencies when it acquired StoreMaster, a register to headquarters solution. This proven POS and convenience store information management software system enabled AutoGas to became a full-line (hose to headquarters) service supplier of hardware and software solutions for the convenience store industry.

The Autogas family of POS products are now developed as separate, inter-working modules utilizing "object-oriented" design principals. The result is a system that functions in superior fashion with true expandability and scalability. This gives customers a new and unique approach to fuel automation

Comdata Corporation
5301 Maryland Way
Brentwood, TN 3702

(800) COMDATA (266-3282)
www.comdata.com

Comdata is a leading financial and data transaction processor that specializes in "trust-enabled" payment transactions based on an individual company's business rules. This can include such transactions as controlled spending, purchasing, payroll, cash card, debit-based, fuel card and similar transactions for both the employees' and the employer's benefit.

ECRS
277 Howard St.
Boone, NC 28607
(800) 211-1172
www.ecrsoft.com

Since 1989, ECRS has been providing world-class retail automation solutions that perform robustly, even in the most demanding environments. The ECRS Open Fuel Server (OFS) integrates seamlessly with CATAPULT, ECRS's enterprise point-of-sale solution, to create a cashier-friendly C-Store system that handles fuel sales and other transactions within the same POS interface. The OFS lets cashiers easily manage all fuel pump activity from the CATAPULT POS touch screen, including authorization, pre-sets, pre-pays, stacked sales, collection, pump disengagement, and drive-offs. In addition to fuel pump integration, ECRS's retail framework features a number of other components, including integrated video surveillance, self-checkout, DSD, wireless HHT, digital customer billboard, and more.

Gilbarco
7300 West Friendly Ave.
P.O. Box 22087
Greensboro, NC 27420-2087
(336) 547-5000
www.gilbarco.com

Gilbarco is a global integrator of network payment and data management solutions for retail petroleum and adjacent markets. 
The Gilbarco G-SITE & Passport are two of the most widely used fuel POS devices in the PDI customer community. They are PC-based, integrated systems for controlling and monitoring fuel islands, credit card authorizations at the pump or counter, in-store sales, underground fuel storage, car wash, and video security. Passport features a touch screen technology with open architecture and is fully certified to interface with PDI back office software. 
Headquartered in Greensboro, NC, Gilbarco has operations in the USA, Germany, Italy, UK, Argentina, Brazil, China, Australia, and New Zealand. The company is owned by Danaher Corporation.

Radiant Systems
3925 Brookside Parkway
Alpharetta, GA 30022 USA
(800) 229-0991
www.radiantsystems.com

Radiant builds and delivers Point-of-Sale (POS) hardware platforms designed specifically to meet the operating and technical challenges of the retail and hospitality environments. Radiant combines over ten years of providing touch-screen systems with open technologies to deliver a solution that minimizes associate training and increases speed and quality of service, all the while adhering to rigid reliability standards. PDI/RMS integrates with the Radiant Systems' CompuTouch POS device.

VeriFone, Inc.
300 South Park Place Blvd.
Clearwater, FL 33759
(727) 953-4125
www.verifone.com

VeriFone, Inc.

The global leader in secure payment solutions, VeriFone designs, manufactures, markets and supports systems and software that bring the speed, convenience and security of electronic payment to millions of businesses and consumers worldwide. VeriFone also provides a comprehensive line of transaction systems, peripherals, network and communications systems, software and Internet commerce products.

The VeriFone Ruby SuperSystem is one of the most popular point-of-sale devices that interfaces with PDI/RMS software. PDI customers benefit from VeriFone's impressive list of credit network interfaces as well as the power and flexibility of the Ruby and Sapphire systems.

Wayne Division, 
Dresser Industries, Inc.

Corridor Park 1
3814 Jarrett Way
Austin, TX 78728
(512) 388-8311
www.wayne.com

Wayne was among the earliest petroleum equipment suppliers to realize the potential of computers by applying them to fuel processing systems. Today, that same commitment to cutting edge technology continues in Wayne electronic dispensers and fully integrated POS systems.

Wayne Plus/3™ integrated POS systems offer flexibility and reliability and work with standard and blending dispensers. Features include integrated site control and cash management functions with complete reporting capabilities. Wayne Plus/3 systems can control up to 24 fueling positions. The Wayne Nucleus POS controls all systems in a service station, including point of sale, connection to credit card networks, pumps, car wash, and underground monitoring equipment. Nucleus uses state-of-the-art PC technology, featuring a touch screen interface with full support for the PDI standard interface to PDI/RMS.

Services

AT Systems
6635 East 30th Street, Suite B
Indianapolis, IN 46219
(866) 287-9783, ext. 133
www.atsystemsinc.com

As one of America's largest cash logistics companies, our goal is to make it easier for our customers to manage and grow their businesses. Our customers are predominantly multi-unit retailers operating cash-intensive businesses and financial institutions. We use innovative technology and logistical expertise to securely and efficiently move and manage information, cash and other valuables so that our customers may enjoy greater productivity and profitability. We design our products and services to complement and add value to our customer’s processes and systems.

DTN Energy
Embassy Plaza Building
9110 W. Dodge Rd, Suite 200
Omaha, NE 68114
(800) 779-5775
www.dtnenergy.com

DTN Energy delivers cost-effective data solutions for the downstream petroleum industry via a fully redundant communication system of Internet, Satellite, XML, EDI, FTP, email, or fax.

Data Communications solutions offer the Marketer access to Supplier posted rack prices, invoices & eBOLs, EFTs, credit card transaction summaries, terminal/Product outages, general & industry-specific information data. Normalized Supplier data can be integrated directly into Marketers back-offices systems, including PDI fuel reconciliation software. 

Expanding on our traditional supplier messaging service – we also deliver integrated Data Communications solutions, real time Fuels Management, Market Intelligence & Online Trading tools. 

DTN Energy didn't invent the term eBusiness, but they have been defining it for downstream Suppliers & Marketers for over a decade--long before it was fashionable to be "e".

fintech.net
4720 West Cypress Street, Suite 100
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 288-1980
www.fintech.net

Financial-Information-Technologies, Inc., founded in 1989, provides electronic financial settlement solutions to retailers and distributors of both regulated and non-regulated goods and services. fintech.net specializes in Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) and Electronic Commerce Interchange services. These services are provided through standards-based programs in conjunction with the National Automated Clearing House Association and the Federal Reserve Banking System.

Gerke & Associates, Inc.
2511 Old Highway 63 South
Columbia, MO 65201
(573) 875-7125
www.gerke.com

Gerke & Associates

For more than 20 years, Gerke & Associates has been serving the convenience store industry by providing state-of-the-art management consulting services and products. Specializing in organizational change, human resources, operations improvement, information technology, financial analysis, and modeling & software development, Gerke & Associates is in the business of creating client success.

CstoreXchange, developed cooperatively by Gerke & Associates and PDI, is an information service that uses the connectivity of the Internet to collect and disseminate convenience store information. Retailers can benchmark and analyze their companies' performance in key areas such as sales, customer count, and labor productivity against other stores within the same state, region, or for the entire nation.

Impact 21 Group
2408 Greatstone Point
Lexington, KY 40504
(859) 219-3040
www.impact21group.com

Impact 21 Group is an alliance of professional retail consultants with broad convenience store management experience. With experience covering each functional department, from Store Management to Senior Management, this team is aligned with a focus on leveraging retail automation in the convenience store industry.

Impact 21 Group uniquely combines business and technology strategies with "real-world" solutions to ensure retailers maximize their automation investments.

By offering a proven business model for integration of retail automation technologies and category management principals, Impact 21 Group positions retailers to drive profitability in the convenience and petroleum retail marketplace.

  • Former Convenience Store Retailers

  • Experienced in multiple platforms and technology solutions

  • Solution-neutral approach to automation analysis

Offering LEADERSHIP, TECHNOLOGY and RESULTS by way of unique partnerships and experience has provided formulas for success for a notable list of Impact 21 Group's regional, national and international clients.

MPSI Systems, Inc.
4343 South 118th Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74146
(918) 877-6774
www.mpsisys.com

MPSI Systems, Inc.

For nearly three decades, MPSI has provided retail marketers with the components necessary to complete their retail business plans and make profitable decisions. From retail network planning to pricing decisions, consulting services, market evaluations and single site analysis, MPSI can provide assistance in virtually every phase of a business operation.

MPSI's Price Volume Optimizer (PVO) is a PC-based pricing system that provides a systematic approach to setting prices at the pump on a daily basis. By combining a predictive model with a unique optimization routine, the PVO system calculates the price structure needed to optimize profits, including convenience store and car wash margins, while meeting the client's marketing goals and specific pricing strategies. Most importantly, PVO is a pricing tool clients will actually want to use because it speaks their language, not a computer's.

Meier Business Systems
P.O. Box 3929
San Angelo, TX 76902
(800) 333-3676

Meier Business Systems

Meier Business Systems, Inc. has been a business ally with PDI since its inception, furnishing printed forms that conform to the program print positions of PDI’s software.

Meier provides the following forms for PDI customers:

  • Impact
    – Payroll Checks
    – Accounts Payable Checks
    – Voucher Continuations
    – Accounts Receivable Statements

  • Electronic
    – Memory Modules containing A/P & P/R, Voucher
    – Continuation & A/R Statements
    – Accounts Payable and Payroll Check Shells
    – Accounts Receivable Statement Shells

  • Store Reporting
    – Beer and Wine Voucher Checks
    – Vendor Receiving Logs
    – Daily Sales Reports
    – Gasoline Sales Report

Simmons
106 E. Main St.
Richardson, TX 75081
(800) 848-8378
www.simmons-corp.com

Simmons

Simmons provides a variety of products and services to manage fuel inventories and to detect tank and line leaks. The company is a major outsourcing vendor of compliance monitoring services for owners of underground storage tanks. Users of the PDI/Resource Management Series can export files containing fuel sales, delivery, and stick information for analysis by Simmons. Statistical reconciliation reports are generated by location and by tank.

Transaction Network
Services, Inc. (TNS)

1939 Roland Clarke Place
Reston, VA 20191-1406
(703) 453-8300
www.tnsi.com

Transaction Network Services (TNS) is one of the world's leading providers of fast, reliable data communications services for transaction-oriented applications. TNS combines innovation, advanced technology and industry expertise to provide a range of authorization and communications solutions to support the transactions industry.

Software/Hardware

Hewlett-Packard Company
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1185
(650) 857-1501
www.hp.com

Hewlett-Packard Company

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium businesses. HP is the leader in both UNIX system and Windows NT based platforms and in successfully integrating them in today's businesses.

PDI customers purchase HP products through PDI/Direct, our value-added hardware and third-party software reseller.

McAfee 
(A Division of Network Associates, Inc.)

3965 Freedom Circle
Santa Clara, CA 95054
(408) 988-3832
www.mcafee.com

McAfee (A Division of Network Associates, Inc.)

With headquarters in Santa Clara, California, McAfee, Inc. creates best-of-breed computer security solutions that prevent intrusions on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats. Offering two families of products, McAfee System Protection Solutions, securing desktops and servers, and McAfee Network Protection Solutions, ensuring the protection and performance of the corporate network, McAfee offers computer security to large enterprises, governments, small and medium businesses, and consumers.

Symantec
10201 Torre Ave.
Cupertino, CA 95014
(408) 253-9600
www.symantec.com

Symantec is a global leader in information security providing a broad range of software, appliances and services designed to help individuals, small and mid-sized businesses, and large enterprises secure and manage their IT infrastructure. Symantec's Norton brand of products is the worldwide leader in consumer security and problem-solving solutions. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 35 countries.

 



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