Patent ID: 8799110

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving one or more controls for a plurality of agreements, each agreement including a plurality of items for purchase; receiving a requisition from a requestor for a target item; ascertaining with a computing device, whether a sourcing rule is applicable to the target item; determining, in response to ascertaining that the sourcing rule is not applicable to the target item, an agreement from the plurality of agreements that includes the target item from the requisition within a plurality of items included in the agreement; determining, by the computing device, one or more controls for the agreement, the controls being set for the agreement, with the controls applying to all of the plurality of items included in the agreement; determining if the one or more controls indicate the requisition should be automatically converted to a purchase order; automatically generating, by the computing device, the purchase order for the target item if the one or more controls for the agreement indicate the requisition should be automatically converted to the purchase order; and outputting the purchase order, the purchase order generated without manual intervention by a buyer.