Irish c-store Topaz selects fuel price management solution

Dublin, Ireland Ireland-based fuel and convenience retailer Topaz has selected a suite of products from KSS to provide day-to-day fuel price management and optimization to its more than 300 retail locations.

Topaz, which has the largest network of service stations in Ireland, will use PriceNet, PriceNet Mobile, PriceNet Web, KSS Visualizer and KSS Mapping solutions for a fully integrated fuel price management offering. The company will implement this suite of solutions to enable them to respond more quickly to changing oil prices.

“We selected these KSS solutions to obtain the highest level of efficiency around our execution of fuel price changes. Having a system that provides enhanced market responsiveness will enable us to improve our overall performance around fuel volume and margin,” said Frank Gleeson, retail director for Topaz. “We are convinced that these KSS solutions offer our stores a ‘best practices’ approach to fuel pricing.”

PriceNet is a pricing solution that supports the key tasks and stakeholders involved in retail fuels pricing. It also includes PriceNet Mobile, which delivers real-time fuels pricing via handheld mobile devices such as PDAs and Blackberrys. In addition, PriceNet Web facilitates exchange of data between field offices and the head office to allow review and authorization.