Patent ID: 7734494
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method comprising: accepting a procurement type input by a user; creating, by a computer, a virtual procurement folder in a database based on the accepted procurement type including a plurality of data fields corresponding, respectively, to a plurality of states in a sequential flow for procuring goods and/or services; completing procurement items based on a new record input by the user and associated with a respective state of the plurality of states; identifying a current state of the plurality of states and changing the current state to the respective state if the current state is not the respective state; recording, by the computer, the completed procurement items in the virtual procurement folder in the database in accordance with the data field corresponding to the respective state; changing from the current state to a different state in accordance with user-defined rules for changing states, said different state not being a next sequential state from said current state in the sequential flow; completing procurement items associated with said different state; and recording, by the computer, the completed procurement items associated with said different state in the virtual procurement folder in the database in accordance with the data field corresponding to said different state, the method thereby allowing procurement items to be completed and recorded in the virtual procurement folder in the database for states in an order which does not follow the sequential flow.