Patent ID: 7254611

Claim:
A system for electronic supply chain management and collaborative planning, including a plurality of hubs, wherein each hub in said plurality includes a set of information owned by business entities relatively proximate to each hub; at least one hub in said plurality of hubs designated as a regional authority; a token possessed by said regional authority identifying said regional authority as a regional authority and including access privileges that authorize said regional authority to synchronize said set of information stored at other hubs, wherein at least read and write access of said other hubs to said set of information is controlled by said regional authority; and a measure of business activity identified at one of said other hubs wherein said measure identifies peak business activity causing said token to be transferred to one of said other hubs proximate to said peak business activity making the hub a regional authority; wherein said peak business activity is measured by at least one of the following: (1) number of transactions, (2) number of units being traded, and (3) monetary value of transactions.