Abstract: An automated system and concomitant methodology for minimizing the procurement costs of products and for generating a list of selected products based on the results of the minimization is disclosed for the Business Volume Discount regime. The system processing covers purchasing situations wherein multiple vendors offer a plurality of products and the vendors give discounts based on the total dollar amount of business received from the purchasers. The processing effected by the system utilizes a linear programming technique to solve a model of the business volume discount regime given a variety of constraints.