ASKUL Begins Medical Supply Delivery Service.Tokyo, Japan, Nov 25, 2005 - (JCNN JCNN Japan Corporate News Network ) - Major Japanese office supply company ASKUL announced on November 21 that it has published the first issue of ASKUL for Medical Professionals, a mail-order catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. for medical materials, and begun delivering medical supplies to hospitals and nursing-care facilities. The 145-page catalog offers about 820 items useful for medical institutions. Initially, the delivery service is available in the Hokuriku and northern Kanto regions through two sales agencies. ASKUL aims to expand the service to cover the entire country in the foreseeable fore·see tr.v. fore·saw , fore·seen , fore·see·ing, fore·sees To see or know beforehand: foresaw the rapid increase in unemployment. future. By offering the medical supply catalog, ASKUL aims to consolidate its presence in the medical supply market while encouraging medical institutions to streamline their supply procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. operations. Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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