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Gaming News 1 5 Thursday, April 19, 2018 That's not only AMERIND's vision, but the heart of sovereignty and why our team is so passionate about what we do. GN: What products and services do you offer? TD: We provide a robust range of prod- ucts and services, including property and liability coverage for tribal governments and businesses, Tribal Workers' Compensation, individual homeowner and renter's coverage and employee ben- efits. Also, our AMERIND Critical Infrastructure helps tribal communities obtain high-speed Internet. We continue to expand to meet the evolving needs of our tribal members, while keeping Native communities safe. GN: What sets AMERIND Risk apart from its competition? TD: AMERIND Risk avoids a one- size-fits-all approach to insurance. We consider a tribe's key risks and design an insurance program around those risks. Doing business sovereign to sover- eign with AMERIND Risk means saving money by avoiding state and federal taxes and fees. Our expense ratio is typi- cally 10-20 percent less than other insur- ance carriers. Saving tribes money on insurance gives tribes the ability to spend their money where it is needed most – their communities. With a 63 percent Native American staff, AMERIND Risk is personally invested in serving tribes. We approach business as a person-to-person relation- ship. We treat every AMERIND client AMERIND Risk (Cont'd. from p. 1) like a family member. AMERIND is sensitive to tribal cul- ture and tradition. Unlike many insurance providers, we insure mobile homes, and traditional homes. AMERIND Risk's Tribal Workers' Compensation (TWC) is a tribal solution to state workers' compensation. Our TWC program offers excellent protection for employees at a reduced cost. Meanwhile, AMERIND saves tribes time and legal expense by handling any work- ers' compensation litigation in tribal jurisdiction. AMERIND Risk goes the extra mile to offer workforce safety training through our TWC program, and to educate tribal housing authorities, homeowners and renters about safety measures to reduce risk. Prioritizing prevention reduces time lost at work, and helps control losses and rising premiums. GN: In what other ways does AMERIND Risk contribute to the sustainability of Indian Country? TD: Because 100 percent of our revenue comes from Tribes, AMERIND Risk "gives back" to Indian Country. We firm- ly believe in helping to grow and build tribal communities. We allocate $500,000 annually for tribal organiza- tions, Native scholarships, outreach and advocacy, event sponsorships and more. For more than 30 years, AMERIND Risk has stood by tribes through hard- ships, helping communities rebuild and flourish. AMERIND Risk is here for the long haul – as long as tribes need us. For more information, visit www.amerindrisk.org, call 505.404.5000, email tduncan@amerindrisk.org or stop by booth #901. Delivering Promotions and Customer Loyalty Across Disparate POS Platforms By Larry Schaffer, IT Director Niemann Foods, Quincy, Illinois Niemann Foods, Inc. (NFI) operates approximately 115 retail stores across eight different formats/brands, in Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Indiana. Our formats include 50 traditional grocery stores (some with fuel on the lot) as well as 25 convenience stores with fuel. Our con- venience stores are comprised of a mix- ture of four different fuel brands as well as several unbranded locations. Our grocery stores have supported a customer loyalty program for nearly 20 years. Our grocery POS system was 20 years old and difficult to support and deploy updates and new versions. Our convenience stores were all running a tra- ditional convenience store industry, petroleum-centric, 25-plus year old POS system with very limited capabilities. We wanted to be able to support loyalty and complex promotions both within the con- venience store group as well as across platforms to the grocery stores. In our ideal world: one POS vendor with solu- tions that would span both industries to minimize cross-vendor interfacing and operational challenges as well as deliver a loyalty/promotions capability that would span across both groups of stores. In 2012, we shopped for and found what we believe was the only single-vendor solution on the market that delivered an experienced and broadly used grocery industry POS, a reasonable convenience store industry POS and a loyalty/promotion engine that integrated across both platforms. In late 2014, one of our primary fuel brands announced they would not be sup- porting our new convenience store POS system choice beyond 2016. That com- bined with a horrible vendor experience with that POS project led us to choose an alternative, "current technology" POS sys- tem solution from a known petroleum industry vendor. Now the problem was finding a loyalty/com- plex promotions engine that would work across the new convenience store POS and the new grocery POS. Enter Midax! My favorite reference for Midax is calling it my "Swiss Army Knife" solu- tion. I discovered that Jim Nevill and his band of merry men and women are veri- table "computer coding/interfacing Ninjas." They have spent the better part of the last 20 years making disparate sys- tems work together. Out of that work they have developed a portfolio of soft- ware solutions that they can adapt and tailor to my business needs. In our case, we are leveraging their loyalty/complex promotion engine along with their fuel fleet billing solution and in-house grocery charge system, inter- faced across our new grocery and con- venience store POS plat- forms to deliver the capa- bilities we need. Our proj- ects are still in the rollout and refinement stages, but we are confident that we will end up good solid solutions customized to our distinctive operational needs and flexible enough to adapt to future requirements. In the interest of full disclosure, any- one who has had to deal with system challenges as broad and convoluted as these understands that these are highly complex and tedious solutions and proj- ects. There is no such thing as "off-the- shelf." You are dependent on the skills and responsiveness of the vendor you choose to work with. You also have to get in the trenches with your vendor partner to fine tune and tweak core functionality to adapt to your particular needs. 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