METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMODITY SOURCING MANAGEMENT

Patent №

US 8,458,075

Granted

2013-06-04

Filed 2011

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13006960

A method for commodity sourcing management or commodity management includes identifying a plurality of divisions of commoditization. A plurality of sourcing options for at least one of the divisions of commoditization are identified, as well as a plurality of financial instruments. The method includes correlating the plurality of divisions of commoditization, the sourcing options and the financial instruments so that they are commonly commensurable for analysis.

PlanningG06Q 40/04G06Q 40/06

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.41
AI hardware0.41
Machine learning0.29
Vision0.01
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 256430143

Assignors

DIEKER, ANTONIUS B., LU, YINGDONG, SQUILLANTE, MARK S.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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