Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for collaborative planning among multiple collaborators and multiple trading partners, in which individual collaborators and individual trading partners can both make use of global information regarding parties using the system, while still being able to maintain secure and separate information regarding how those individual parties treat their counterparts. The system includes a many-to-many hub at which multiple collaborators and multiple trading partners can exchange information, the hub including a global database having public information about those multiple collaborators and multiple trading partners; the system also includes within the hub a set of private databases having secure and separate information for individual collaborators or individual trading partners.

Abstract: Methods and systems with which manufacturers can review reliable information about supply conditions including multiple supplier tiers, and maintain order collaboration for an extended supply chain.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for tracking business to business communication among trading partners in a supply chain. Trading partners utilize a central hub to coordinate and track events. Prior to sending an event to other trading partners, a trading partner obtains an event tracking number from a central hub. Trading partners receiving the event can validate its unique status and validity by observing content within the event itself and by querying the central hub for additional information. Using the invention, the disparate communication systems used by trading partners and the lack of a system for clearly identifying and tracking events, no longer exists and the possibility of confusion as to the uniqueness of any one event when compared with another with similar characteristics is eliminated.

Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for collaborative planning among multiple collaborators and multiple trading partners, in which individual collaborators and individual trading partners can both make use of global information regarding parties using the system, while still being able to maintain secure and separate information regarding how those individual parties treat their counterparts. The system includes a many-to-many hub at which multiple collaborators and multiple trading partners can exchange information, the hub including a global database having public information about those multiple collaborators and multiple trading partners; the system also includes within the hub a set of private databases having secure and separate information for individual collaborators or individual trading partners.