Systems and methods for facilitating negotiations for supply chain control

A system for facilitating negotiations for purchasing materials between a buyer and a plurality of sellers, the system comprising:

• a first database that stores a first quantity of each of the materials needed to build a quantity of a product that meets a demand for the product and a first set of dates for the sellers to deliver the materials on a computer system;
• wherein the database allows the sellers to access the first quantity of materials and the first set of dates;
• the first database receiving data from the sellers indicating an ability of each of the subset of the sellers to deliver a portion of the first quantity of materials on one of the first set of dates;
• wherein the computer system determines whether the sellers can deliver the first quantity of each of the materials by the first set of dates.

A method for negotiating orders for materials between a buyer of the materials and a plurality of sellers of the materials, the method comprising:

• calculating a first plan for a set of materials based on a demand for a product, the first plan indicating first quantities of the materials needed to build the product and first delivery dates for the materials;
• allowing the plurality of sellers to access a first database that stores the first quantities of the materials and the first delivery dates;
• receiving data from the sellers indicating an ability of the sellers to deliver the first quantities of the materials by the first delivery dates;
• storing the data from the sellers in the first database or a second database;
• calculating a second revised plan for the set of materials if the data from the sellers indicates that at least one of the sellers cannot deliver a portion of the first quantities of the materials by one of the first delivery dates, the second revised plan indicating second revised delivery dates for the materials;
• and
• releasing the second revised delivery dates to the sellers.