PriceNet, PriceNet Mobile, and KSS Visualizer Enhance the Pricing
Decision Process
FLORHAM PARK, N.J.--(Business Wire)--
KSS, the global leading supplier of pricing analytics, execution,
and optimization systems to the petroleum industry, announces that
Western Refining, Inc., the nation's fourth largest publicly traded
independent oil refiner, has selected PriceNet, PriceNet Mobile, and
KSS Visualizer to help improve and simplify the fuel pricing process
for its 150-plus convenience stores across New Mexico, Arizona and
Colorado.
PriceNet is an end-to-end pricing solution supporting the key
tasks and stakeholders involved in retail fuels pricing, including
price optimization to consistent, accurate, and timely implementation.
KSS Visualizer is a Web-based data visualization tool intended to
quickly draw attention to significant changes in key performance
measures such as volume, running rates, margins, and more, at any
level of the business from individual grade/store to overall network.
"We are delighted that Western Refining has chosen the KSS suite
of products to support the consistent delivery of their pricing
strategy," said Bob Stein, chief executive officer of KSS.
About Western Refining, Inc.
Western Refining, Inc. is an independent refining and marketing
company headquartered in El Paso, Texas. Western has a refinery in El
Paso, two refineries in the Four Corners region of Northern New Mexico
and a refinery in Yorktown, Virginia. Western's asset portfolio also
includes refined products terminals in Albuquerque, New Mexico and
Flagstaff, Arizona, asphalt terminals in Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque
and El Paso, retail service stations and convenience stores in
Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, a fleet of crude oil and finished
product truck transports, and three wholesale petroleum products
distributors - Phoenix Fuel Co., Inc. in Arizona, Empire Oil Company
in California and Dial Oil Co. in New Mexico. More information about
the Company is available at www.wnr.com.
About KSS
KSS is the global leading provider of pricing analytics, price
management, rules-based pricing and optimization technology and
services to fuel retailers and wholesalers in the oil and gas,
convenience store, grocery and big box retail industries. KSS clients
include global, national and regional companies managing a total of
over $140 billion in revenue through more than 20,000 fuel sites and
rack terminals throughout the world. KSS US headquarters are located
in Florham Park, NJ with European headquarters in Manchester, UK.
For further information please visit the website at www.kssg.com
or contact:
Bob Stein, Chief Executive Officer - Tel: +1 (973) 549 1850
Mark Hawtin, Vice President Marketing - Tel: +44 (0)161 228 0040
For media inquiries, contact Roy G. Miller - Tel: +1 (903) 422
5117 or rmiller@rgmcomms.com
For KSS
Roy G. Miller, 903-422-5117
rmiller@rgmcomms.com
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