Martin and Bayley, Inc. (Huck’s) Selects TelaPoint’s
Internet Petroleum Supply Chain Solution
Leading
Illinois
convenience store retailer and transportation provider to utilize TelaFuel’s ASP based Supply Chain Management Solution to
gain efficiencies.
LOUISVILLE, KY —
January 17, 2006 — TelaPoint, Inc., a leading Internet
supply chain software provider for the Convenience Store and Petroleum
industry, today announced that Martin and Bayley
(Huck’s) has elected to implement its TelaFuelä Internet
software solution to streamline and manage its fuel replenishment, buying and
transportation scheduling processes.
Huck’s is using TelaFuel, a browser-based
application suite, to improve management of fuel marketing and transportation
operations serving more than a 150 retail locations throughout Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri, and Kentucky. With TelaFuel,
Huck’s will be electronically processing fuel orders and optimizing the
scheduling of their transportation fleet, resulting in lower costs, enhanced
customer service, improved fleet utilization and greater administrative
efficiency.
“Our decision to implement TelaPoint’s supply chain solution is a key component of our
ongoing strategy to optimize efficiencies across our petroleum marketing and
transportation operation,” said Mark Bayley, Huck’s
Co-President. “TelaFuel
will help us significantly reduce the manual labor and paper needed to operate
our fuel business.”
“TelaPoint is proud to be a
partner with Huck’s and is committed to making their implementation a success,”
said TelaPoint’s President, Mike Dahlem. “Managing the growing complexities of today’s
fuel environment requires companies such as Huck’s to re-engineer their
business processes. We are committed to
providing the systems and tools they will need to be successful today and
tomorrow.”
TelaFuel is an Internet
supply chain software solution that includes Smart Replenishmentä, Smart Buyingä and Smart
Invoicingä. The TelaFuel solution helps companies realize fewer
communication errors with transportation partners, lower fuel inventory and
replenishment costs, make better fuel purchasing and pricing decisions, and
streamline fuel invoice reconciliation.
All TelaPointä customers have secure access through browser-based software
applications allowing for timely and accurate communication with their
authorized trading partners. TelaPoint’s Internet services extend and redefine
interaction and collaboration between trading partners in the Convenience Store
and Petroleum supply chains.
About Martin and Bayley (Huck’s)
Martin & Bayley (better known as Huck's
Food and Fuel) operates about 150 Huck's convenience stores and three travel
centers in Illinois, Indiana,
Missouri, and Kentucky. The company is opening a
commissary at its warehouse in Carmi,
Illinois to supply sandwiches and
other food items to all of its stores. Founders Bob Martin and Frank Bayley formed a partnership in 1960. In 1974, they opened
the first Huck's convenience store in Illinois.
Family-owned since its inception, Martin & Bayley
became a 100% employee-owned corporation in 2001, when the Martin and Bayley families sold their stakes in the company.
About TelaPoint
TelaPoint, Inc. is the first
Internet platform software company to provide business-to-business applications
focused exclusively on the Convenience Store and Petroleum industry. The TelaPoint
application suite enables convenience stores and fuel outlets to improve the
efficiency of their fuel replenishment, buying and administrative
operations. Founded in February
1999, TelaPoint is a privately held company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.
Additional information on
TelaPoint is available via the Internet at www.telapoint.com or through email
at media@telapoint.com. TelaPoint, TelaFuel,
Smart Replenishment, Smart Buying, Smart Invoicing, and the TelaPoint logo are
trademarks of TelaPoint, Incorporated.
All rights reserved. All other
company and product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the
respective companies with which they are associated and are acknowledged.
