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iControl announced today that it has expanded its relationship with client Kwik Trip, with the activation of its Scan Based Trading solution.  iControl had previously been providing alcohol payment services and related reporting to Kwik Trip.

Moving a DSD category to scanned based trading could seem like a daunting task, but with iControl and the Harmony solution, it is simple. 

In DSD, products are delivered directly to the store and merchandised by consumer products manufacturers. DSD is poised to have a large role in helping stores in 5 areas: grow revenue, higher margins, accelerated working capital, better returns on tr[...]

  We are proud to have Ann Dozier as one of our board members. In her day-to-day role as the Chief Information Officer at Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, North America’s largest wine and spirit distributor with over 21,500 employees, Ann is leadi[...]

We’ll cover in this post a few of the key reasons why DSD solutions are crucial and how the Empower DSDTM suite takes the hassle and pain out of DSD, so you can focus on what matters—your customers! iControl has built our business by supporting some [...]

Every retailer has a set of KPIs they focus on every week. Often these KPIs summarize thousands if not millions of data points that are occurring across thousands of stores. Stakeholders at numerous different levels of an organization need them to as[...]

We have all heard the saying “Garbage In – Garbage Out”, for some of us maybe a frustratingly number of times. Information Technology has developed great solutions to automate all sorts of activity but in most cases the solutions require that the sou[...]

Direct store delivery has a deep-rooted history in retail. DSD really started taking shape and being widely used in the 1990’s. The idea that the Suppliers would be providing a service where they would take on the tasks associated with in-Store inven[...]