Patent ID: 7047208

Claim:
A computerized system for analyzing data for a supplier that provides products to a manufacturing company to evaluate the stability of said supplier comprising: a first database comprising supplier performance data for said supplier, said supplier performance data related to said manufacturing company's purchase of products from said supplier; a second database comprising supplier provided business operation data, said supplier provided business operation data comprising data regarding said supplier's business operations provided by said supplier to said manufacturing company at said manufacturing company's request; a third database comprising third party financial and alert data, said third party financial and alert data comprising data related to said supplier's business operations obtained from at least one third-party service that collects and evaluates data for a plurality of companies; a computer with software for (a) defining a plurality of warning indicators related to said supplier's business wherein a plurality of value ranges is associated with each of said plurality of warning indicators, each of said plurality of value ranges corresponding to an acceptability level; (b) analyzing said supplier performance data, said supplier provided business operation data, and said third-party financial and alert data to assign a value to each of said plurality of warning indicators; (c) assigning an acceptability level to each of said plurality of warning indicators wherein said acceptability level is determined according said value assigned to each of said plurality of warning indicators and said value range for said each of said plurality of warning indicators; and (d) assigning a stability level to said supplier according to said acceptability level for each of said plurality of warning indicators wherein said stability level relates to said supplier's ability to continue providing products to said manufacturing company.