Operations
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...
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...
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 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...
Submitted by Stephan Okano, VP of Engineering We met with a fuel wholesaler at SIGMA and heard a story that has since come up in different versions from several other operators. His college-age nephew, home...
Strategy & Quick Wins Propel Surge in Margin Growth Understanding that foodservice is the future of retail convenience business, the convenience store chain raised the bar with bold foodservice margin targets. For most c-store retailers,...
