Patent ID: 8015057

Claim:
A method for automatically analyzing outsourcing of one or more activities of services to a plurality of suppliers, the method comprising the steps of: a. retrieving values for a plurality of parameters from a database, wherein the plurality of parameters are associated with the one or more activities and the plurality of suppliers; b. processing the retrieved values based on a predetermined rule set, wherein processing the retrieved values comprises the steps of generating an activity scorecard by scoring each activity of the one or more activities and generating supplier scorecards by scoring each supplier of the plurality of suppliers; and c. calculating an index based on the activity scorecard and the supplier scorecards to rank each supplier of the plurality of suppliers, wherein the index is a ratio of an average score of a supplier for an activity to complexity in execution of the activity, the complexity in execution of the activity increasing with increase in a score for the activity in an activity scorecard wherein the steps of the method is performed by a computer system including a microprocessor.