Inventory on-line method for the internet
First Claim
1. An inventory online method to provide a virtually supplemented in-house inventory for the maintenance inventory holder to provide improved inventory control, reduce required on site inventory size, and reduce inventory cost comprising the steps of:
- determining a maintenance inventory of parts for a manufacturer;
providing an online inventory listing of the maintenance inventory;
connecting the online inventory listing of the maintenance inventory to at least one other source selected from the group consisting of a vendor'"'"'s inventory, a component manufacturer'"'"'s inventory, a general market inventory, and a shared inventory from another maintenance inventory holder;
compiling the maintenance inventory for the manufacturer including the online inventory listing from the at least one other source to provide the virtually supplemented in-house inventory.
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Abstract
An inventory online (IOL) method and system provides the control and data for a virtually supplemented inventory for the maintenance inventory holder (MIH) reducing the required on site inventory size and, consequently, the inventory cost. The MIH is provided with an Inventory Online (IOL) through inventory control software over the Internet. This will in effect replace a portion of the normally required In-house Inventory (IHI) with inventories held by specific vendors (VI), inventories held by the general market (GMI) or shared inventories held in common with other MIHs (SI). The system provides control pages for inventory listing, inventory costing, shared inventory, online offer for sale of excess inventory, search and message capability, and a system wide item search utilizing the UPC code.
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1. An inventory online method to provide a virtually supplemented in-house inventory for the maintenance inventory holder to provide improved inventory control, reduce required on site inventory size, and reduce inventory cost comprising the steps of:
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determining a maintenance inventory of parts for a manufacturer;
providing an online inventory listing of the maintenance inventory;
connecting the online inventory listing of the maintenance inventory to at least one other source selected from the group consisting of a vendor'"'"'s inventory, a component manufacturer'"'"'s inventory, a general market inventory, and a shared inventory from another maintenance inventory holder;
compiling the maintenance inventory for the manufacturer including the online inventory listing from the at least one other source to provide the virtually supplemented in-house inventory. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15)
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12. An inventory online system comprising:
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a plurality of manufacturers each requiring a maintenance inventory;
an Internet connection to each of the plurality of manufacturers;
an online inventory program for listing the maintenance inventory of each of the plurality of manufacturers; and
,compiling the maintenance inventory for the plurality of manufacturers to provide a virtually supplemented in-house inventory with similar parts of each maintenance inventory virtually shared between the plurality of manufacturers whereby a similar part in one of the plurality of manufacturers is virtually counted to the maintenance inventory of another of the manufacturers without being duplicated in each maintenance inventory.
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