Among buying supply ones of enterprise, general term of indirect material supply ones.

In the word which is used originally mainly with the manufacturing industry, thing of the fixture consumable which is necessary for maintenance (supplement), repair (repair) and operation (operation) is meant. The goods which it buys & supplies with the manufacturing industry, the plant and the tool which become directly material such as the raw material materials part which is related to production directly (fund material/principal producer goods) and the expense buying object other than that, the device and the preservation materials, are divided into indirect material such as consumable, repair supplies component and fuel (secondary materials). Latter among these is called the MRO material (goods).

From around in the nineties, for the enterprise which used Internet utilizing the mechanism of electronic commerce (B to B EC), the movement which assures the improvement of efficiency of indirect material procurement function of enterprise appeared, reached the point where the word, among those MRO is used. In this case, it is not the case that it is used contrastively in the fund material, it points to the sentence tool paper office furniture OA equipment supply supplies general thing which is used daily inside enterprise.

Ahead supplying the specification and the effect when material which does mass or periodic transaction supply systematizes directly was large, rationalization was advanced from early on. But, in order as for the MRO material in addition to the fact that small-to-medium-sized small business is many in the supplier, the number of items is many, to supply irregularly at little multi frequencies, it was the field whose standardization and systematization are difficult. Because there is no order volume of the extent which installs buying section if price negotiation the ? and others ?, the employee who in addition is purchased must discontinue his own business, non efficiency the surface was done problem apparent e.g..

When Internet (Intranet) spreads,the groupware
Asandthe enterprise which is tackled the systematization of MRO supply in the work flow system increases, the enterprise which offers MRO supply support service appeared. Especially, as for appearance of ???? which supplies big success with net sale of the stationery, it was something which stimulates the flow of stationery net supply strongly.

As for conversion to online system systematization of MRO supply, being cheap simply, not only saying, that it purchases, "how without applying time, you can call the thing which is considered as theme of the business process improvement it purchases quickly low at cost, does proper stock conversion?