Jane M. Murphy

TL;DR: In this article, a system for deploying to a client accounting installation a general procurement and accounts payable application specifically configured for the client by an enterprise includes a database server for maintaining on a storage device a database of templates describing procedures for assessing, preparing, developing, deploying and supporting the application, and serving these templates to team members operating web-enabled terminals for coordinating, recording and tracking team activities with respect to the application while generating a description for adapting a front end server and an accounting system server to the requirements of the client.

TL;DR: In this article, an Internet trading network is operated by establishing supplier memberships of suppliers providing offerings to the trading network; establishing customer memberhips of customers providing volume commitments; consolidating all volume commitments for a particular commodity or service when negotiating an offering with the supplier; managing memberships and their accounts.

TL;DR: In this article, an Internet trading network is operated by establishing supplier memberships of suppliers providing offerings to the trading network; establishing customer memberhips of customers providing volume commitments; consolidating all volume commitments for a particular commodity or service when negotiating an offering with the supplier; managing memberships and their accounts.

TL;DR: In this article, a method and system for managing trading in trading networks is presented, where each trading network package is based on negotiations occurring prior to receiving purchase requests from customer members of the trading network.

TL;DR: In this paper, a system for managing a supplier for participation in trading networks is presented, which includes: receiving from each trading network a volume commitment consolidating volume commitments for offerings of commodities and services; negotiating with each trading networks to supply to customer members of the trading network the commodity or service; storing attributes including start date, end date, services and products offered to the trading networks; offing a trading network package including: (i) a value-add service offering to the customer members for a fee, and (ii) a managed package for which a customer member provides