It is common in the Convenience and Retail Petroleum industry to use the term POS (Point Of Sale) to refer to all of the site components that the consumer interfaces with or is used to process/impact a purchase of fuel or store merchandise. This clearly includes POS, EPS (Electronic Payment Server), FCC (Forecourt Controller), CATs…
Month: June 2016
Gears That Keep Technology Moving
In his latest post to CStoreDecisions, Ed Collupy reflects on how industry standards improve profitability by reducing costs and improving competitiveness: Standards, in my early days of retailing, were always there to set expectations, something to work by, and measure compliance success with. Then I learned about technical standards. NAXML, EDI, ISO, ARTS, PCI—and the…
Principles for IT Transformation
It’s no secret today’s IT landscape has become significantly more complex as organizations strive to satisfy business demands. The race to provide data for informed decision-making (big data), build applications to provide anywhere access to services (mobile), and deliver solutions to support revenue growth has created unique challenges for every organization. This challenge combined with…