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Credit Strategies for Managing Fuel Price Volatility
Credit departments today are managing customers whose fuel costs have jumped 50% or more, often without any change in gallons delivered. That means credit limits are stretched, aging buckets are swelling, and pastdue balances are...
Before You Add Headcount: Five Questions for Your 2027 Operating Plan
By Joel Davis, VP of Marketing, Gravitate Consider a delivery that goes exactly as planned. The driver loads the right product, arrives on time, and completes the drop. The customer gets the fuel. Around that...
The Appreciation Multiplier: What the Latest Frontline Data Says About Keeping Your Best People
Fewer than half of frontline workers feel regularly appreciated. Those who do are five times more likely to say their wellbeing is improving, a key factor in whether employees stay with an organization. For fuel...
Outgrowing Spreadsheets and Scaling Operations: A Story of Reimagining Daily Pricing
By Johnny Bertucci, President The quick take: ABC Fuel Distributors, an anonymized mid-size petroleum marketer with 15 suppliers and roughly 300 retail and commercial accounts, spent close to two hours every day manually pulling supplier...
The Cost of Product Rationalization: Managing SKU Complexity in Lubricant Distribution
The lubricant industry has never offered more product choices than it does today. Between evolving OEM requirements, emissions regulations, synthetic formulations, specialty applications, and private-label offerings, distributors are managing increasingly complex inventories. While expanded product...