Patent ID: 8156012

Claim:
A method comprising: a server machine sending an initial e-mail message to an e-mail address of a requisitioning-user in response to direction received from an initiating-user, the initial e-mail message including a requisition template that specifies information about one or more items for requisitioning; the server machine receiving a reply e-mail message in response to the initial e-mail message, the reply e-mail message including the requisition template, as adjusted by the requisitioning-user to specify adjusted information about the one or more items for requisitioning; the server machine processing the reply e-mail message to determine the adjusted information about the one or more items for requisitioning; wherein the information specified in the requisition template comprises one or more indicium, each indicium being configured to represent an item that can be requisitioned by the requisitioning-user and having its own associated quantity field, the quantity field representing the quantity of the associated item that is desired by the requisitioning-user; wherein receiving the reply e-mail message comprises receiving the reply e-mail message from the requisitioning-user's e-mail address; wherein the server machine processing the reply email message comprises: the server machine determining an identity of and the quantity of at least one item desired by the requisitioning-user based at least in part on a reading of a quantity field associated with the at least one item as adjusted in the requisition template of the reply e-mail message, the server machine determining the requisitioning-user's e-mail address from which the reply e-mail message was sent, and the server machine determining default information based on at least one of the group consisting of the identity of the at least one item, the quantity of the at least one item, and the requisitioning-user's e-mail address; and the server machine associating the requisitioning-user's e-mail address with the identity and the quantity of the at least one item desired by the requisitioning-user.