Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Finance
Reexamination Certificate
2005-11-08
2005-11-08
Bashore, Alain L. (Department: 3624)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Finance
C705S001100, C705S035000, C705S037000, C705S400000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06963854
ABSTRACT:
A business process and computer system known as the “Target Pricing System” (TPS) that generates an optimum bid or value for a competitively bid good or service. The system is resident on one or more host processors in connection with one or more data stores, and includes a product model that defines list values for the bid using stored price data and costs the values using stored cost data, a competitor net price model that calculates an equivalent competitor net price for the value, anda market response model that calculates the probability of winning with the value as a function of price. The system further preferably includesan optimization model that computes the target price of an optimal value that maximizes expected contribution for the bid or value. The system alternately further includes a benefits model for calculating the benefits of using target pricing over a pre-existing approach, and strategic objects which each affect the target price.
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Andersson Jorgen
Boyd Dean
Cook Greg
Cooke Mark
Gordon Mike
Bashore Alain L.
Charles Debra
Hogan & Hartson LLP
Manugistics Inc.
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