Patent ID: 8452669

Claim:
A purchase request management system for multiple sellers to remotely manage purchase request records, the system comprising: a purchase request computer system remotely accessible via a network; a system database coupled to the purchase request computer system storing a plurality of purchase request records created from data received from potential buyers, said data including buyer contact information and product information; a plurality of participating seller records comprising information about a plurality of participating sellers, said purchase request records and seller records stored in computer storage comprising at least one computer storage medium; a buyer-seller association software module stored in the computer storage and configured to assign each of said purchase request records to only a subset of the participating sellers in accordance with purchase request criteria, said purchase request criteria for each of said participating sellers predetermined in accordance with a relationship between a lead distributor and each of said plurality of participating sellers; a seller remote access software module executed on said computer system, stored in the computer storage, and configured to provide each of said participating sellers with access to said computer system such that each seller can access only the subset of purchase request records which have been assigned to said seller by said buyer-seller association software module and can assign a task related to said subset of purchase requests to a user such that the system provides a reminder to perform the assigned task to the user to whom the task has been assigned; and a processor in communication with said buyer-seller association software module and said seller remote access software module and configured to execute said buyer-seller association software module and said seller remote access software module.