GE Supply Net Now Available To All Customers; Real-Time, On-Line Service Makes Ordering Easier, More Efficient.SHELTON Shelton, city (1990 pop. 35,418), Fairfield co., SW Conn., on the Housatonic River opposite Derby; settled 1697, set off from Stratford 1789, inc. as a city 1915. Metal products, furniture, and electronic equipment are among the city's manufactures. , Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 1998--GE Supply customers can now place and track orders instantly over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the with GE Supply Net, the electrical distribution industry's first real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. Internet ordering system. The system, initially launched in 1996 to a limited number of customers, was the earliest of its kind among electrical distributors Noun 1. electrical distributor - electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence distributer, distributor . Easily accessed from GE Supply's Web site (http://www.ge.com/supply), GE Supply Net enables customers to place orders for products from GE and more than 200 other quality manufacturers using real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. on product availability and customer-specific pricing. The on-line system gives customers real-time access to inventory availability throughout the entire GE Supply Warehouse Network. It lets customers use the warehouse network as if it were their own, thus reducing the amount of inventory they would have to stock at their own location. Material ordered through the on-line system can either be picked up the same day at the local GE Supply stocking branch, or delivered to a customer-specified location the following business day. GE Supply Net is also linked to the new GE Supply On-Line 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. . The On-Line Catalog has over 100,000 items and images, and includes basic technical information, so that searching for a product is easy and efficient. When GE Supply Net subscribers use the On-Line Catalog to select a product, the system gives them customer-specified prices and real-time information on when that product is available for delivery. Besides the advantages of real-time, easy-access ordering, GE Supply's on-line system offers customers additional benefits including extended hours of operation, customer-defined part number look-up and ordering, quick order status review, easy invoice An itemized statement or written account of goods sent to a purchaser or consignee by a vendor that indicates the quantity and price of each piece of merchandise shipped. A consular invoice is one used in foreign trade. and credit look-up, and simple quote creation and modification. "GE Supply Net leverages Internet technology to deliver the latest in electronic commerce tools for the industry," said Kevin Sheehan, GE Supply Product Manager. "The system increases customer productivity by providing real-time access to product availability and pricing, within extended hours of operation. Along with next-day delivery, the system also enables customers to reduce their inventory. These benefits make customers more competitive in the market they serve." About GE Supply GE Supply is a full-line, international distributor of electrical, voice and datacom equipment and supplies from General Electric and other leading manufacturers. GE Supply serves electrical contractors, industrial and commercial users, engineer constructors, OEMs and utilities. GE Supply supports its customers with national programs such as Hub and Spoke Any architecture that uses a central connecting point. It is the same as a star topology in a network. A network hub is hardware that functions as a central hub to all nodes. See hub and full mesh.  and GE Supply Net. Headquartered in Shelton, Conn., the company utilizes 4.5 million square feet of warehouse space and has over 150 branch offices and five distribution Hubs throughout the U.S., Mexico, South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Ireland and the Middle East. GE Supply can be reached at (203) 944-3000; its Web site address is http://www.ge.com/supply
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