Abstract: A process for distributing items, especially industrial maintenance repair and operating (MRO) parts and supplies. The process includes as a first step providing a plurality of vendors for selling the item. Next, an information network by which each vendor can communicate to the other vendors a current inventory quantity and a current price of the item each of the vendors has for sale.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 15, 1998
Date of Patent:
November 27, 2001
Assignee:
MRO Software, Inc.
Inventors:
Larry C. Peterson, Steven E. Kwiatkowski