Patent ID: 8332298

Claim:
A method for risk exposure management that allows a sales record to influence at least one risk exposure, the method comprising: identifying an item transacted from a line item in a sales order, the line item including an identifier of the item transacted, a quantity unit of the item transacted, and a payment term of the item transacted, wherein the item transacted includes a component; comparing, using a processing device, the identifier of the item transacted to those in a lookup table; identifying from the lookup table as a result of the comparing, the component of a transacted item and an allocation quantity of the identified component, wherein the allocation quantity represents an amount of the identified component included in the transacted item; creating a sub raw exposure record for the identified component, the sub raw exposure record including the quantity unit of the item transacted in the line item and the identified allocation quantity of the identified component from the lookup table; and mapping, using the processing device, data in the created sub raw exposure record to an exposure position for the identified component, the exposure position representing an aggregated exposure for the identified component calculated in part from the quantity unit and the identified allocation quantity in the sub raw exposure record.