Driver-less Trucks taking over the world? How do they refuel?
Sharing a note sent to staff: Team – An article in Tech Crunch got re-posted by Quartz, which has a lot of readers, and so one can figure a lot of eyes have seen it now. Here’s a link: http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/25/the-driverless-truck-is-coming-and-its-going-to-automate-millions-of-jobs/ Rapid synopsis: So a convoy of self-driving trucks has...
New fields: Sales Class, Category, Segment. Brands.
We created Product Tags some time ago, touting these as a means of categorizing products in ways not achieved via existing means, such as Product Category (PCAT or SUBPCAT) or Vendor. Now that a number of jobbers have implemented those tags, we're seeing them being...
Transportation after 2025 – without oil?
Sharing this note sent to PRX staff on April 13, 2016: Team – I attended an interesting presentation last night at ASU's Skysong. In that, Dr. Mike Tamor presented a concept that I think has its genesis at Ford Motor Company and has been floated so far...
Logging use of the C/L billing checker
For some time we've recommended that the Cardlock Menu '$' option be used to examine the billing file for unreasonable margins. Specifically, we think that before any batch is posted, this utility should be run, ranking for cents per gallon profit. Whether high or low,...
A/R Change in Cash Requirements List
The Cash Requirements List out of C/D has an option to include expected Accounts Receivables in the summary by day that appears at the end of the report. We've made two changes: There is now a running total A/R column, just as there was always a...
Added County to Network Site Maintenance
We have added a display of the county in Network Site Maintenance. This is simply the default county on file in the Zip Code file, and is not something we presently maintain by site. It is hoped that having this available makes it easier to...