Larry C Peterson

US Patent:

20020082956, Jun 27, 2002

Filed:

Nov 26, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/994374

Inventors:

Larry Peterson - Holland OH, US
Steven Kwiatkowski - Perrysburg OH, US

Assignee:

MRO Software

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/028000

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. A last step includes establishing an agreement among the vendors in which a first vendor agrees to sell to a second vendor, upon demand at a future point in time, up to the then current inventory quantity of the item at the then current price communicated over the information network by the first vendor to the second vendor

US Patent:

63245221, Nov 27, 2001

Filed:

Sep 15, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/153705

Inventors:

Larry C. Peterson - Holland OH
Steven E. Kwiatkowski - Perrysburg OH

Assignee:

MRO Software, Inc. - Bedford MA

International Classification:

G06F 1760

US Classification:

705 28

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. A last step includes establishing an agreement among the vendors in which a first vendor agrees to sell to a second vendor, upon demand at a future point in time, up to the then current inventory quantity of the item at the then current price communicated over the information network by the first vendor to the second vendor.