SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPLITTING COLLABORATION ON EVENT METRICS FOR A SUPPLIER TO RESPOND TO BASED ON FUNCTIONAL ROLE

• US 20130060659A1
• Filed: 09/02/2011
• Published: 03/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Dakes, Joanna, Velasquez, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US13/225,187
• Publication Number:
  US 20130060659A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems of splitting collaboration on event metrics for a supplier to respond to based on functional role. The method includes establishing review groups. Each of the review groups includes at least one user. The method further includes associating bid factors to one or more of the review groups, displaying each of the bid factors in accordance with the association of the bid factors with each of the review groups, receiving rankings for each of the bid factors from each of the review groups associated with the bid factors, receiving answers to each of the bid factors from at least one supplier, ranking each of the answers to the bid factors. and correlating the rankings for each of the rankings of the bid factors and the rankings of the answers to generate a score for the at least one supplier.

Claims

1. A method of splitting collaboration on event metrics for a supplier to respond to based on functional role, the method comprising:

establishing a plurality of review groups, wherein each of the plurality of review groups includes at least one user;

associating bid factors to one or more of the plurality of review groups;

displaying each of the bid factors in accordance with the association of the bid factors with each of the plurality of review groups;

receiving rankings for each of the bid factors from each of the plurality of review groups associated with the bid factors;

receiving answers to each of the bid factors from at least one supplier;

ranking each of the answers to the bid factors; and

correlating the rankings for each of the rankings of the bid factors and the rankings of the answers to generate a score for the at least one supplier.

2. The method of splitting collaboration on event metrics for the supplier to respond to based on functional role as in claim 1, further comprising assigning the bid factors to an event header and line items.

3. The method of splitting collaboration on event metrics for the supplier to respond to based on functional role as in claim 1, further comprising:

setting up notification settings for each of the plurality of review groups; and

based on the notification settings, notifying each of the users in each of the plurality of review groups about the status of the collaboration.

4. The method of splitting collaboration on event metrics for the supplier to respond to based on functional role as in claim 1, further comprising based on the bid factors, generating worklist items for each of the users.

5. The method of splitting collaboration on event metrics for the supplier to respond to based on functional role as in claim 1, further comprising restricting view of bid factors based on the review group of the user.

6. The method of splitting collaboration on event metrics for the supplier to respond to based on functional role as in claim 5, further comprising restricting view of answers based on the review group of the user.

7. The method of splitting collaboration on event metrics for the supplier to respond to based on functional role as in claim 6, further comprising providing each user with the ability to accept or reject rankings of the bid factors and answers.

8. A system for splitting collaboration on event metrics for a supplier to respond to based on functional role, the system comprising:

a storage device having sets of instructions stored thereon; and

a processor coupled with the storage device, wherein the sets of instructions when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

establish a plurality of review groups, wherein each of the plurality of review groups includes at least one user;

associate bid factors to one or more of the plurality of review groups;

display each of the bid factors in accordance with the association of the bid factors with each of the plurality of review groups;

receive rankings for each of the bid factors from each of the plurality of review groups associated with the bid factors;

receive answers to each of the bid factors from at least one supplier;

rank each of the answers to the bid factors; and

correlate the rankings for each of the rankings of the bid factors and the rankings of the answers to generate a score for the at least one supplier.

9. The system of splitting collaboration on event metrics for the supplier to respond to based on functional role as in claim 8, further comprising:

a consumer computing device, wherein the consumer computing device includes a metric identification engine and a metric evaluation engine; and

a supplier computing device in communication with the consumer computing device.

10. The system of splitting collaboration on event metrics for the supplier to respond to based on functional role as in claim 8, wherein the bid factors are presented to the suppliers as a RFx or a RFI.

11. The system of splitting collaboration on event metrics for the supplier to respond to based on functional role as in claim 8, wherein the sets of instructions when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to during analysis set up collaboration parameters within each of the plurality of review groups, and dates and times to have review complete for each user.

12. The system of splitting collaboration on event metrics for the supplier to respond to based on functional role as in claim 8, wherein each user is a collaborator and wherein each of the bid factors is restricted to collaborators not associated with the bid factor.

13. The system of splitting collaboration on event metrics for the supplier to respond to based on functional role as in claim 8, wherein the bid factors are questions presented to the suppliers.

14. The system of splitting collaboration on event metrics for the supplier to respond to based on functional role as in claim 8, wherein the sets of instructions when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to restrict view of bid factors based on the review group of the user.

15. A computer-readable medium having sets of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

establish a plurality of review groups, wherein each of the plurality of review groups includes at least one user;

associate bid factors to one or more of the plurality of review groups;

display each of the bid factors in accordance with the association of the bid factors with each of the plurality of review groups;

receive rankings for each of the bid factors from each of the plurality of review groups associated with the bid factors;

receive answers to each of the bid factors from at least one supplier;

rank each of the answers to the bid factors; and

correlate the rankings for each of the rankings of the bid factors and the rankings of the answers to generate a score for the at least one supplier.

16. The computer-readable medium as in claim 15, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the computer, cause the computer to:

receive additional bid factors; and

receive rankings for the additional bid factors.

17. The computer-readable medium as in claim 15, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the computer, cause the computer to rank each of the plurality of review groups, wherein the ranking of the review groups is factored in the generation of the score for the at least one supplier.

18. The computer-readable medium as in claim 15, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the computer, cause the computer to restrict view of bid factors based on the review group of the user.

19. The computer-readable medium as in claim 15, wherein more than one of the plurality of review groups are associated with at least one of the bid factors.

20. The computer-readable medium as in claim 15, wherein the plurality of review groups includes one or more of:

a legal group, an IT group, or a functional group.