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New Version of KSS RackPrice Addresses Wholesale Fuel Profitability

Enhanced Business Intelligence and Intra-day Pricing Capabilities

Enable Fuel Wholesalers to Identify and Respond to Demand Variations

Florham Park, NJ – Feb. 3, 2009 – KSS Inc. today announced the availability of RackPrice version 2.0, the latest release of the company’s comprehensive price management system for fuel wholesalers.

This latest revision includes enhancements that focus on increased user-friendliness, pricing efficiency and functionality that will help wholesalers continuously review their competitive landscape and make quick and optimal pricing decisions to improve gross profits.

RackPrice version 2.0 includes several new and updated features and modules:

• New user interface – The software’s pricing workbench screens have been re-designed to provide a more powerful and informative set of business intelligence analytics and enhanced user experience.
• New Day Deal pricing module – Adds comprehensive management of customer-level deal pricing, with the ability to set time-limited and volume-tiered pricing against posted rack prices, or margins against cost quotations. This module eases the burden of managing off-rack and day deals to wholesale customers.
• Improved demand forecasting – Includes the addition of time-series based techniques that improve the accuracy of short and longer term volume forecasts and trends, as well as improved modeling of seasonal volume variations.
• Enhanced price optimization – Greater flexibility to represent current business constraints across multiple supply points and channels, as well as the ability to optimize for volume, profit or margin. As an example, these added capabilities will allow fuel wholesalers to price to a volume target across multiple supply points and maximize profitability while meeting desired competitor price positions.
• Business Intelligence Enhancements
  • Simulate Module improvements – Updates to this module give wholesalers insight into competitive strategies by analyzing both recent price history, as well as the way competitors react to cost changes and underlying trends. Recent additions also give users more flexibility and control over the definition of market conditions.
  • Visualizer Module enhancements – Module includes improved data integration and simpler definition of analytics result in easier navigation of potentially large data sets and rapid highlight and assessment of key performance issues.

RackPrice is an end-to-end wholesale pricing solution and includes modules for price generation automation, reporting/analysis, competitive price prediction, price-volume modelling and price optimization. The system helps wholesalers meet volume targets at the maximum possible margin by improving its pricing processes and responding more rapidly and effectively to market moves.

“RackPrice 2.0 builds upon previous versions of our software by further enhancing, automating and analyzing a fuel wholesaler’s pricing process and execution,” said Bob Stein, president and chief executive officer of KSS. “The software includes new features and modules that will give wholesalers, jobbers and marketers additional tools and business intelligence to efficiently evaluate market conditions and set optimal and competitive wholesale fuel prices.”

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