Vendors and customers join a purchasing consortium which.maintains vendor and customer databases, and a product catalogue database. Vendors enter product, product pricing and product maintenance data into product catalogue database. A customer searches the catalogue data base and purchases product selected from product catalogue. The purchasing customer's information from the customer/vendor database, and the product product, pricing and product maintenance data for the selected product or products, are linked to an inventory and/or customer asset management data base, such that the customer can retrieve, use and manipulate the product, product pricing and product maintenance data in connection with the management of the assets purchased. Purchase payments are processed to the appropriate vendor,, and optionally a portion thereof to the consortium.manager.
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