Pro Petroleum, Inc. Selects TelaPoint's Internet Petroleum Supply Chain Solution

Pro Petroleum, Inc. Selects TelaPoint's Internet Petroleum Supply Chain Solution

Leading bulk storage operator, petroleum marketer and transportation provider implements TelaFuel to manage fuel marketing and transportation operations

LOUISVILLE, KY., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- TelaPoint, Inc., a leading Internet supply chain software provider for the Convenience Store and Petroleum industry, today announced that Pro Petroleum, Inc. has implemented its TelaFuel(TM) Internet software solution to streamline and manage its fuel marketing and transportation scheduling processes. Pro Petroleum is using TelaFuel, a browser-based application suite, to improve management of fuel marketing and transportation operations serving more than a thousand delivery locations throughout Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Texas. With TelaFuel, Pro Petroleum is electronically processing customer 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 Internet supply chain solution is a key component of our ongoing strategy to optimize efficiencies across our petroleum marketing and transportation operation to better serve our customers," said Mark Griffin, Pro Petroleum, Inc. President. "TelaFuel is helping us to significantly reduce the manual labor and paper needed to operate our business."

"TelaPoint is proud to be a partner with Pro Petroleum Corporation and is committed to assisting them in achieving their petroleum marketing and fleet optimization objectives." said TelaPoint's President, Mike Dahlem. "Leading wholesale marketers and transportation companies such as Pro Petroleum clearly recognize the enormous potential to increase business process efficiencies, trim costs and to develop and enhance relationships with new and existing customers."

TelaFuel is an Internet supply chain software solution that includes Smart Replenishment(TM), Smart Buying(TM) and Smart Invoicing(TM). 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 TelaPoint(TM) 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 Pro Petroleum, Inc.

Mr. B. R. Griffin founded Pro Petroleum, Inc. in 1989. Pro Petroleum, headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, operates several bulk storage facilities and a transportation terminal located in Phoenix, Arizona. The company operates a fleet of more than 40 petroleum transport trucks that deliver bulk products in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Texas. Pro Petroleum also maintains a marketing office located in Laguna Hills, California.

Pro Petroleum provides supply and transportation products and services to a broad range of customers including petroleum resellers, convenience stores, travel centers, hypermarkets, government municipalities, independent school districts and private aviation companies located throughout Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Texas.

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 http://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.

TelaPoint Contact:
John Humphreys
Vice President
TelaPoint, Inc.
502.569.7500 ext. 231
jhumphreys@telapoint.com


Source: TelaPoint, Inc.

CONTACT: John Humphreys, Vice President of TelaPoint, Inc.,
+1-502-569-7500 ext. 231, or jhumphreys@telapoint.com

Web site: http://www.telapoint.com/


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