Patent Document ID: 8103534
Application ID: 10279188

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of managing supplier intelligence, comprising: collecting procurement data regarding a procurement process from a plurality of data sources, the procurement data including information regarding a plurality of business divisions of a business entity; for each business division, generating a set of spend formulas for determining spending associated with that business division; generating a set of supplier intelligence business rules based on a variety of business parameters, each supplier intelligence business rule interrelating at least one spend formula associated with a first one of the business divisions with at least one spend formula associated with a second one of the business divisions; performing, using a computer system, an automatic analysis of at least a portion of the procurement data based on one or more of the set of supplier intelligence business rules to determine the financial effects of a decision made by the first business division on the second business division; and automatically generating a visual output indicating the results of the automatic analysis of the at least a portion of the procurement data.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the procurement data includes information automatically extracted from a plurality of electronic contracts based on a set of linguistic rules.