Multi-constituent attribution of a vendor's product catalog

Details Multi-constituent attribution of a vendor's product catalog Multi-constituent attribution of a vendor's product catalog

2008-09-29

2011-11-29

Smith, Jeffrey A (Department: 3625)

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

Electronic shopping

Reexamination Certificate

active

08069096

ABSTRACT:
A single instance, multi-tenant procurement system, includes an access module to provide access to a plurality of end users associated with an organization to their respective accounts, each account being customized by a super user of the organization, a search engine to execute searches for products offered by one or more suppliers, a transaction module to process and track one or more requisitions generated by the plurality of end users, a business rules module to apply business rules established between the organization and the one or more suppliers to process the requisitions, and a data repository to store data generated on the system.

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