Abstract: The present disclosure provides for affording a market management framework. Category analysis is provided for a user specified project. Then, supplier analysis is performed for the user specified project. A strategy is then developed for determining the suppliers for the specified project based on the supplier analysis. Further, negotiations are managed between selected suppliers and the user.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 1, 2000
Date of Patent:
July 1, 2008
Assignees:
Accenture, LLP, B2EMarkets, Inc.
Inventors:
David A. Yelich, John E Cunningham, Glenn J. Thomas, Holly H. Studdard, David Blaine, Richard Waugh, Orville Bailey, Shirish Pareek, Amy Cutlip Cohen
Abstract: The present disclosure provides for analyzing expenditures by category. A file including expenditure data relating to spent monies is identified. The expenditure data from the file is extracted. An independent and a dependent variable relating to the expenditure data are determined. The expenditure data is graphed based on the determined variables. Conclusions are displayed based on the expenditure data.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 1, 2000
Date of Patent:
June 17, 2008
Assignees:
Accenture, LLP, B2EMarkets, Inc
Inventors:
David A. Yelich, John E. Cunningham, Glenn J. Thomas, Holly H. Stoddard, David Blaine, Richard Waugh, Orville Bailey, Shirish Pareek, Amy Cutlip Cohen