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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJeffrey M. Kruk, Peter P. Quigney, Kasra Kasravi
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A method of managing supplier intelligence is provided. The method includes collecting procurement data from a plurality of data sources. The procurement data includes information regarding a plurality of business divisions of a business entity. The method further includes generating spend formulas for each business division for determining spending associated with each business division. The method further includes generating a set of supplier intelligence business rules that interrelate at least one spend formula associated with a first one of the business divisions with at least one spend formula associated with a second one of the business divisions. The method further includes automatically analyzing a portion of the procurement data based on the supplier intelligence business rules to determine the financial effects of a decision made by the first business division on the second business division. The method further includes automatically generating a visual output indicating the results of the analysis.
A method of managing supplier intelligence, comprising:
Software for managing supplier intelligence, the software being embodied in computer-readable media and when executed operable to:
A system for managing supplier intelligence, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.