Hierarchical Workflow Management System

A method of coordinating workflow for a project having at least four levels, comprising:

• providing an administrator entity with an administrator line item view of information provided by multiple ones of the vendor level entities;
• providing an owner entity with an owner line item view of information provided by at least one administrator level entity;
• providing a funding entity with a funding line item view of information provided by an owner level entity;
• providing interfaces that allow each of the funding, owner, administrator and vendor level entities to (a) add data to a data store, and (b) visualize data from the data store according a set of rules based at least in part on a level of the entity;
• automatically consolidating status information and approval requests upwards from the vendor level entities to the administrator entity, to the owner entity, and to the funding entity, wherein deficiencies relating to the status information and approval requests occurring at lower levels are automatically identified to entities at higher levels in their corresponding line item views, and denials of the approval requests are automatically transmitted to appropriate ones of the lower levels.