Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Including point of sale terminal or electronic cash register
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-26
2006-12-26
Backer, Firmin (Department: 3621)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Including point of sale terminal or electronic cash register
C705S064000, C705S067000, C705S030000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07155403
ABSTRACT:
A leveraged procurement network (LPN) system for leveraging purchasing across company and company groups includes a front-end requisition and catalog system accessible by users from a plurality of companies in different company groups. Access to procurement resources is controlled by user profiles and resource profiles specifying for each user and resource the applicable company group. Purchases against volume specific contracts are leveraged by requisitions for a plurality of company groups, while user access to procurement resources within the front-end system are controlled by company and/or company group.
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Cirulli Susan Bumgardner
Evans Robert Martin
Robinson Gerald R.
Wilson Sherry Lee
Backer Firmin
Beckstrand Shelley M
International Business Machines - Corporation
Schiesser William E.
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