BOC Launches Web Services-Enabled Gases Management Tool.Business Editors MURRAY HILL Murray Hill may refer to one of the following places:
BOC (Bell Operating Company) One of 22 companies that was formerly part of AT&T and later organized into seven regional companies. See RBOC. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BOX) has launched Arrowhead2, a new web services-enabled capability that provides customers with a tool to manage their industrial gases products from order to payment to replenishment. Arrowhead2 expands on BOC's previous gases management tool, Arrowhead1 - which offers ordering, inventory management, internal chargeback Chargeback The charge a credit card merchant pays to a customer after the customer successfully disputes an item on his or her credit card statement. Notes: Customers dispute charges to their credit card usually when goods or services are not delivered within the and supplier management of cylinders and related industrial gases products - with its support for web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. standards such as simple object access protocol (protocol) Simple Object Access Protocol - (SOAP) A minimal set of conventions for invoking code using XML over HTTP. DevelopMentor, Microsoft Corporation, and UserLand Software submitted SOAP to the IETF as an internal draft in December 1999. Latest version: SOAP 1. , or SOAP. This capability allows dynamic application-to-application content sharing between multiple sources of information. "BOC Arrowhead1 helps our larger customers streamline their supply chain. The launch of Arrowhead2 means these and other customers can benefit further from BOC's continued use of the latest technology standards " said Brian Walsh ''This article refers to the racehorse owner, not the 1997 winner of the Drumaí céilí category at the All-Ireland Fleadh Championship, from County Monaghan. Brian Walsh[1], from County Kildare, Ireland [2]is owner [3] , president, of BOC Industrial and Special Products, North America. Fulton Wilcox, director of technology business development, BOC, said, "The number one problem in b-2-b eBusiness today is content management. Adding web services capability allows Arrowhead 2 to tie into customer, exchange, and supplier content and supplier information sources. For example, a web services "SOAP call" lets Arrowhead2 tap into a BOC special gases "Thesaurus," resulting in a quick retrieval of useful information." As with Arrowhead1, Arrowhead2 enables customers to implement Internet ordering from suppliers using the Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) process model. And Arrowhead2 is offered as a hosted service, with BOC acting as the application services provider. BOC offers a wide range of eBusiness services, including Internet ordering, electronic access to quality assurance data, automatic supplier replenishment through vendor managed inventory Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a family of business models in which the buyer of a product provides certain information to a supplier of that product and the supplier takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of the material, usually at the buyer's , Tel-TankTM remote tank monitoring, on-line plant configuration, and process design tools and expertise. The BOC Group (NYSE:BOX), the worldwide industrial gases, vacuum technologies and distribution services company, serves two million customers in more than 50 countries. It employs some 43,000 people and had annual sales over $6 billion in 2001. Further information about The BOC Group may be obtained on the Internet at http://www.boc.com. --30--md/ny* csm
CONTACT: BOC Corporate Communications
Kristina Schurr, 908/771-1510
kristina.schurr@us.gases.boc.com
KEYWORD: NEW JERSEY
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: CHEMICALS/PLASTICS E-COMMERCE ENERGY INTERNET
OIL/GAS PRODUCT
SOURCE: BOC
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