Method for doing business with collision centers
OwnerRobert D. Bourneinventor
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Abstract
A method and system for the supply of automotive collision centers is provided, which includes a Customer, Jobber, and intermediate Order Manager. The Customer will fax, phone, email and most importantly e-Commerce the order to the Order Manager, who passes it on to the Jobber. Then the Order Manager will in turn fax, call, email and send over the Internet and/or intranet the order to a jobber who is local Order Manager Affiliate. Under one particularly important part of the invention, orders are scanned at the customer's physical location, passed through the Order Manager's system, and entered directly into the legacy system of the jobber, saving a great deal of time and effort.
Claims4
A method for providing supplies to an automotive Collision Center from a Supplier having a legacy computer system, said method comprising the steps of:
- establishing an internet web site, said web site supervised by an Order Manager and including subsections assigned to a plurality of Suppliers, each Supplier including unique SKU numbers associated with the inventories of said Suppliers;
- providing scannable indicia associated with product in the bins of said Collision Center, said scannable indicia corresponding to said SKU numbers;
- providing a scanner and associated hardware at the location of said Collision Center, said scanner and associated hardware configure to allow one to scan said indicia associated with said product in said bins and to transfer order information associated with said goods intended for said bins to said internet web site;
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- providing a connection between said internet web site and said legacy system of said jobber to allow said orders previously scanned to be entered directly into said legacy system from said web site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.