Q & A: Ed Strahs
NPN, National Petroleum News,
05/2005, Volume:
97, Issue:
5
Trade Publication Article
In an interview, Ed Strahs, director of IT at Kwik Trip Inc, talked about what it takes technologically to keep a diverse operation linked and efficient. He said that one thing about Kwik Trip is ...that the company is committed to technology, from President Don Zietlow all the way down. They do everything internally that they possibly can. Their main platform is an iSeries (IBM) 400, and they develop all their business applications on that. He added that they have their own maintenance group that is part of his department, so that any PCs, printers and peripheral equipment that they have in their stores are all maintained in-house. He also said that they installed a voice picking system in their warehouse -- they used a third-party vendor, but they had to do all the interfaces into that system to be able to pick by voice.
