Fuels

PDI Acquires Intellifuel

C-store, petroleum automation provider picks up fuel-management-solutions firm

TEMPLE, Texas -- PDI, a provider of enterprise-class automation software systems to the retail convenience-store and wholesale petroleum industries, has completed the acquisition of Intellifuel Systems Inc., a provider of fuel-management and logistics solutions for downstream and midstream participants in the fuel supply chain.

The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction.

Intellifuel provides solutions across the fuel supply-chain market. Downstream, the company helps petroleum marketers automate the entire order life cycle. Midstream, it provides terminal automation systems, custody transfer, terminal and rail-car scheduling, inventory position management and customer/stockholder portal solutions.

“With deep roots in the petroleum industry and best-in-class technologies, Intellifuel provides customers with tools that help them scale their operations while reducing operational costs, resulting in a positive ROI on their investment,” said Greg Gilkerson, president and CEO of PDI.

“The PDI and Intellifuel teams recently collaborated to complete deep integration efforts, giving customers a seamless, elegant solution,” he said. “After many successful partnerships with Intellifuel in the past, we are eager to combine the two companies to provide a robust, single solution to the market.”

Rick Evans, co-founder of Intellifuel, said, “We look forward to extending that reputation by combining PDI’s industry-leading ERP solution with Intellifuel’s premier logistics solutions. Our goal is to offer a single, unified solution to the industry.”

PDI provides software, hardware and professional services to convenience-store retailers and wholesale petroleum marketers. More than 325 companies operating more than 31,000 locations worldwide rely on PDI’s software systems for retail automation, supply-chain management, business intelligence, financial reporting, and employee time and labor management.

Titusville, Fla.-based Intellifuel automates downstream petroleum and biofuels operational processes, integrating its solutions with its customers’ existing and diverse systems. It provides site data capture, inventory optimization, system integration and replenishment-planning services for petroleum marketers, as well as automated order management, inventory balancing and loadout solutions for biofuels plants, bulk plants and pipelines.

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