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:
Application
Filed:
September 15, 1998
Publication date:
August 2, 2001
Applicant:
MAINTENET CORPORATION
Inventors:
LARRY C. PETERSON, STEVEN E. KWIATKOWSKI