BOC Gases announced the last week of January that it had been awarded two multi-year contracts by DuPont Sourcing to supply compressed, industrial, and special gases and a variety of eBusiness servic…
BOC Gases announced the last week of January that it had been awarded two multi-year contracts by DuPont Sourcing to supply compressed, industrial, and special gases and a variety of eBusiness services to 20 DuPont locations in the northeastern and southeastern US. BOC is a leading practitioner of eBusiness in the compressed gases industry. The company offers a wide range of Internet-enabled services including Internet ordering, electronic access to quality assurance data, automatic supplier replenishment through Vendor Managed Inventory, Advanced Cylinder Control System (ACCS(TM)), bulk order/billing system, Tel-Tank(TM) remote tank monitoring, on-line plant configuration, and process design tools and expertise. The BOC Group, the worldwide industrial gases, vacuum technologies and distribution services company, serves two million customers in more than 50 countries. It employs almost 43,000 people and had annual sales of over US$ 6 billion in 2001.