System for purchase management and for facilitating distribution

A system for purchase management based on an administrative standard of purchasing, said system comprising:

• an administrative standard specifying unit for specifying, when a purchase request is to be made on a plurality of types of items, the administrative standard of the purchase request according to the expense items representing the category or use of said items defined for each item, by defining useable expense item codes based upon a correlation between a budget control unit for a user and said expense items;
• an administrative standard specific dividing controller for performing control of dividing said purchase request per administrative standard when said administrative standard specifying unit specifies that the administrative standards of the respective items to which the purchase request was made differ;
• an administration controller for receiving the purchase request divided per administrative standard and administratively controlling said purchase request;
• a divided ordering controller for performing control of dividing and ordering said purchase request per item specific dealer when said administration controller allows the purchase request;
• an order totaling controller for totaling the order data ordered by the divided ordering controller according to the attribute of the expense item of said order;
• a budget control unit master storing a customer's management unit identification, a budget control unit identification and an expense item code usable with a budget control unit showing the budget control unit identification, the customer's management unit identification, a budget control unit identification and the expense item code being made in connection with each other;
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• a merchandise assortment master storing an item number showing an item, the expense item code showing an expense item showing one or more category or use of usable with the item and a merchandise unit identification showing a merchandise assortment to a user of a customer front, the item number, the expense item code and merchandise unit identification being made in connection with each other, wherein the administrative standard specifying unit has a function specifying the expense item made in connection with the item number by reference to the merchandise assortment master based on the item number assigned to the item when purchase request of a plural kinds of items is made, or specifying the expense item made in connection with the budget management unit identification by reference to the budget management unit master based on the budget management unit identification showing the budget management unit to which a user belongs, and accumulating them in a shopping cart, a function specifying the administrative standard of each item to which the purchase request is made by reference to an approval path and a budget layer master based on the expense item code and the budget management unit identification, and a function determining whether or not an administrative standard of an item newly accumulated in the shopping cart agrees with an administrative standard of the item already accumulated in the shopping cart whenever an item is accumulated into the shopping cart.