A new touch-screen electronic point of sales unit from Phillips
66 is being showcased at NBAA. The Prism system, says general
aviation sales director Allen Bretz, is designed to make life
easier for aviation fuel dealers not only by speeding transactions
but by allowing quick end-of-day downloads of activity into accounting
software, thereby eliminating both data-entry work and mistakes.
"We've just started getting them out into the field this
summer," Bretz reports.
Phillips is hosting a breakfast this Wednesday at the convention
center to acquaint the industry with the new fueling system, and
also to explain changes that have taken place since the Conoco-Phillips
merger in 2002. "It's given us additional supply terminals
and pipeline capability and refining capacity," Bretz says
of the merger. ConocoPhillips says it's now the third largest
integrated energy company in the United States, and the largest
refiner in the country. The company owns or has an interest in
some 31,500 miles of pipeline.
On the aviation side, the firm says that all of its regional managers
are licensed pilots.
Phillips 66 remains the ConocoPhillips aviation fuel brand. The
company is at Booths 2353 and 2461 here, as are more than a dozen
of the its aviation dealers.
