Weblog for supply chain management
OwnerJayaram Srinivasan, Nageshwara Mandainventors
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Abstract
Disclosed are methods and systems for accessing a supply chain process through a weblog. The methods and systems involves receiving data from a one or more machines associated with a supply chain process, the supply chain process comprising a plurality of data publishing stages, updating the weblog with the data received from each of the data publishing stage of the one or more machines, retrieving access rights for accessing the data updated to the weblog and displaying the data in the weblog based on the access rights.
Claims20
An article of manufacture including a computer readable storage medium to tangibly store instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
- receive data from one or more machines associated with a supply chain process, the supply chain process comprising a plurality of data publishing stages;
- update a weblog with the data received from each data publishing stage of the one or more machines;
- retrieve access rights for accessing the data updated to the weblog;
- and
- based on the access rights, display the data in the weblog.
A computer system for accessing a supply chain process through a weblog, the computer system comprising:
- a one or more machines for publishing data associated with the supply chain process, the supply chain process comprising a plurality of data publishing stages;
- a processor;
- a memory in communication with the processor for storing:
- a data receiving module to receive data from each data publishing stage of the supply chain process;
- a data updater module for updating the data received at each data publishing stage of the supply chain process to the weblog;
- a security access module to store access rights for accessing the data updated weblog;
- and
- a user interface for displaying the data received from the one or more machines according to the access rights.
A computerized method for accessing a supply chain process through a weblog, the computer system comprising:
- receiving data from one or more machines associated with the supply chain process, the supply chain process comprising a plurality of data publishing stages;
- updating the weblog with the data received from each data publishing stage of the one or more machines;
- retrieving access rights for accessing the data updated to the weblog;
- and
- based on the access rights, displaying the data in the weblog.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.