E-Commerce Platforms

McJunkin has invested heavily in E-Commerce and Internet based material management systems. Our philosophy is to focus on E-Commerce solutions adopted by our alliance customers while remaining involved in other relevant and innovative aspects of E-Commerce.

McJunkin is currently involved in the following E-Commerce areas:

McJunkin’s Electronic Catalog
McJunkin has implemented a web based electronic catalog and ordering system which gives our customers access to over 120,000 items that can be purchased over the Internet. McJunkin’s web enabled Electronic Catalog provides part number look-up capability, inventory stocking levels at the McJunkin stocking locations, access to supplier catalogs for material specifications, and requisition order entry. When a customer creates a requisition on McJunkin’s Electronic Catalog, the requisition is interfaced automatically to our on-line ordering system for sourcing, picking and shipping. The electronic catalog interfaces include customer pricing, inventory stock levels, and order status.

Catalog Data
McJunkin has invested a substantial amount of resources in developing catalog data. We have rationalized roughly 102,000 of McJunkin’s descriptions and we are currently rationalizing our data in an effort to improve the fit with Noun/Modifier Parametric Search Engines that drive most e-Business Solutions. McJunkin provides customers with our catalog data directly and through the use of several content companies.

Ariba
McJunkin has an ongoing relationship with Ariba on behalf of many strategic alliance customers. McJunkin has provided Ariba with rationalized data to support our customer’s use of Ariba. In addition, McJunkin has developed ‘Punch-Out’ capability so that Ariba users punch-out of the Ariba application directly into McJunkin’s electronic catalog. We have several customers using Punch-Out in production. We also have customers in production that chose to host McJunkin catalog data. We receive orders through the Ariba Network on a daily basis.

XML
McJunkin has developed XML integration with several of our alliance customers. These customers are sending purchase orders and change orders in XML format. We are returning order acknowledgements, advance ship notices, and invoices in an XML format.

EDI
McJunkin is an industry leader in the use of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Event-Driven EDI (EDE) and supports virtually all standard transaction sets.

A substantial portion of McJunkin’s transactions with customers and suppliers are processed using EDI. McJunkin processed over 1 million EDI transactions in 2006. ANSI X12 standards are used in all EDI processing and McJunkin currently supports versions 2000 through 4010. The following EDI data sets are supported:

(204) Outbound Motor Carrier Load Tender
(210) Inbound Motor Carrier Freight Details/Invoice
(215) Outbound Shipping Manifest
(810) In/Outbound Invoice
(820) Inbound Remittance Advice
(824) In/Outbound Application Advice
(832) In/Outbound Electronic Sales Catalog
(840) Inbound Request for Quotation
(843) Outbound Response to Request for Quotation
(846) In/Outbound Inventory Advice
(850) In/Outbound Purchase Order
(855) In/Outbound Purchase Order Acknowledgment
(856) In/Outbound Advanced Ship Notice
(857) Outbound Shipment and Billing Notice
(860) Inbound Change of Order
(863) Inbound Report of Test Results
(870) Inbound Order Status Report
(990) Inbound Response to Load Tender
(997) In/Outbound Functional Acknowledgment

For more information on McJunkin’s E-Commerce capabilities or platforms please contact Elaine Michael at emichael@mcjunkin.com.