Patent ID: 7991631

Claim:
A method for managing a multi-supplier environment, comprising: in response to at least a request for an enterprise transaction, identifying a multi-supplier model configured to identify information for executing different aspects of the transaction associated with different enterprise departments and a primary supplier from a plurality of selectable third-party suppliers, the model configured to identify methodologies for executing the different aspects of a transaction; generating a plurality of requests for the different enterprise departments and the primary supplier based, at least in part, on the supplier model and the transaction request, each of the different enterprise departments and the primary supplier associated with at least one of the plurality of requests; identifying a document for an aspect of the transaction associated with one of the different enterprise departments; automatically populating said identified document with data associated with a corresponding transaction aspect; and automatically transmitting each of the plurality of requests to at least one of the associated enterprise departments or the primary supplier in accordance with the multi-supplier model.