Patent ID: 7761903

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for determining one or more policy parameters of one or more entities of a supply chain, comprising: storing information about a supply chain in one or more databases; generating, by a computer, a display having one or more user input fields; receiving, by the computer, a user input from at least one of the one or more user input fields specifying one or more attributes of one or more entities of the supply chain; receiving, by the computer, a user input from at least one of the one or more user input fields specifying one or more attribute segments for each corresponding attribute, each attribute segment comprising one or more values of the corresponding attribute; graphically displaying, by the computer, the one or more attribute segments; generating, by the computer, one or more policy groups based on one or more attribute segments of an attribute; and assigning, by the computer, one or more policy parameters to the one or more policy groups.