IT gets swept up in marketing, sales

摘要

Network Services Co. is using the Internet to revamp its 36-year-old business of providing commercial janitorial services, industrial packaging and food service disposables through a national distribution network. The company's proprietary Web-based technology is also creating a new relationship between marketing and IT as they communicate the benefits of the system to customers, suppliers and distributors. Network Services, based in Mount Prospect, Ill., has roughly 75 member-owners that combined distribute more than $7 billion worth of products and services to customers in manufacturing, food service, health care and facilities maintenance.