USER GUIDANCE SYSTEM

• US 20150193714A1
• Filed: 12/18/2014
• Published: 07/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nipendo Limited (American Express Company)
• Original Assignee: Nipendo Limited (American Express Company)
• Inventors: ROSENBERG, Alon, ROSENBERG, Eyal, STERN, Assaf
• Application Number:
  US14/574,480
• Publication Number:
  US 20150193714A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06315 Needs-based resource requirements planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work

Abstract

A system and method fir guiding a supply chain management system user belonging to an organization, comprising: retrieving a list of said user'"'"'s available actions; retrieving a list of said organization'"'"'s business partners relevant to said user; retrieving a list of all currently active business processes involving said relevant business partners; deriving required actions for each retrieved process; cross referencing said derived actions with said user'"'"'s permissions and filtering them accordingly; prioritizing said filtered actions; grouping similar actions; creating a task for each group of similar actions; and linking said tasks to relevant documents.

Claims

1. A supply chain management system comprising:

a system server comprising a central processor and at least one database, said database comprising organization related data and user related data;

a plurality of user computers communicating with the system server over a network;

said system server running a software process defining;

an interface layer configured to communicate messages and business transactions bi-directionally between said user computers and said system server; and

a services layer configured to apply business logic to said messages and business transaction and process them according to a predefined workflow of said supply chain management system;

said plurality of user computers running client applications configured to communicate with said interface layer;

said service layer comprising a guidance service configured to communicate with said at least one database to provide user guidance based on said organization related data and said user related data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said organization related data comprises the organization'"'"'s business partners and the type of association with said partners.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said user related data comprises the user'"'"'s role in the organization and the user'"'"'s permissions in the system.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the guidance service is further configured to automatically create tasks for a user based on said organization related data and said user related data.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the guidance service is further configured to prioritize said created tasks.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the guidance service is further configured to link said created tasks to a document.

7. A method of guiding a supply chain management system user belonging to an organization, comprising:

retrieving a list of said user'"'"'s available actions;

retrieving a list of said organization'"'"'s business partners relevant to said user;

retrieving a list of all currently active business processes involving said relevant business partners;

deriving required actions for each retrieved process;

cross referencing said derived actions with said user'"'"'s permissions and filtering them accordingly;

prioritizing said filtered actions;

grouping similar actions;

creating a task for each group of similar actions; and

linking said tasks to relevant documents.