Patent ID: 7983962

Claim:
A method of entering purchase order data, comprising: determining one or more predetermined lists of items satisfying a selection criteria entered by the user using a graphical user interface associated with a computerized purchasing system; displaying hierarchically the one or more predetermined lists of items; receiving a selection by the user of a first predetermined list of items from the one or more predetermined lists of items; displaying one or more items associated with the first predetermined list of items including a set of data for each item previously entered into the computerized purchasing system; receiving first data associated with an item selected by the user from the first predetermined list of items, wherein the first data comprises data entered by a user using the graphical user interface associated with the computerized purchasing system; transferring the first data to a purchase order list in response to a single user input command facilitated by the graphical user interface; and displaying the first data as a purchase order list line item in the purchase order list in response to the single user input command; determining whether a material, a material description, and a UPC code are available for the item based on the first data; displaying the material in the purchase order list line item based on a material availability, the material previously entered into the purchasing system; determining a material description display decision which is that a material description should be displayed; displaying the material description in the purchase order list line item based on the material description display decision, the material description previously entered into the purchasing system; displaying the UPC code in the purchase order list line item based on a UPC code availability, the UPC code previously entered into the purchasing system; generating a net order price for the item based on the first data; displaying the net order price for the item; wherein a processor is configured to display the purchase order list line item in at least one of a first position ahead of a previously transferred purchase order list line item in the purchase order list, a second position below the previously transferred purchase order list line item in the purchase order list, a third position ahead of and to the left of the previously transferred purchase order list line item in the purchase order list, and a fourth position ahead of and to the right of the previously transferred purchase order list line item in the purchase order list.