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Will the uniqueness of 7-Eleven's home-grown information system—which tracks Slurpee sales by the hour—isolate the company from its suppliers?

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Headquarters: 2711 N. Haskell Ave., Dallas, TX 75204
Phone: (214) 828-7011
Business: Convenience stores
Chief Information Officer: Keith Morrow
Financials in 2001: $9.9 billion in sales; $103.8 million operating profit; $83.7 million net profit
Challenge: Improve profit margins by collaborating with suppliers to make and ship products more efficiently

Baseline Goals:

Decrease (from seven) the number of days that inventory is held before being sold

Open 250-300 new stores by the end of 2003

Deploy 3,500 financial kiosks in U.S. stores by December 2003; generate profits from this $200 million investment in 2004