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Managing consistent interfaces for merchandise and assortment planning business objects across heterogeneous systems

  • US 8,463,666 B2
  • Filed: 11/25/2008
  • Issued: 06/11/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A tangible computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for performing an assortment plan service, the service exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry, wherein upon execution the program code executes in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services and comprises:

  • program code for receiving, from a service consumer, a first message for processing a plan for purchasing articles by a company;

    program code for invoking an assortment plan business object, wherein the business object is a logically centralized, semantically disjointed object representing a plan for purchasing articles by a company, and comprises data logically organized as;

    an assortment plan root node;

    a description subordinate node;

    a product category subordinate node;

    a season subordinate node;

    an item subordinate node and wherein the item node contains;

    a description subordinate node;

    a sales price specification calculation subordinate node;

    a product procurement arrangement subordinate node;

    a product category subordinate node;

    a prepack subordinate node and wherein the prepack node contains;

    a property valuation subordinate node and wherein the property valuation node contains;



    a property reference subordinate node; and



    a value group subordinate node and wherein the value group node contains a property value subordinate node; and

    a ratio subordinate node and wherein the ratio node contains;



    a property valuation subordinate node and wherein the property valuation node contains;





    a property reference subordinate node; and





    a value group subordinate node and wherein the value group node contains;







    a property value subordinate node; and

    a quantity subordinate node and wherein the quantity node contains;

    a property valuation subordinate node and wherein the property valuation node contains;



    a property reference subordinate node; and



    a value group subordinate node and wherein the value group node contains a property value subordinate node; and

    a target sales subordinate node; and

    program code for initiating transmission of a message to a heterogeneous second application, executing in the environment of computer systems providing message-based services, based on the data in the assortment plan business object, the message comprising an assortment plan message entity, a message header package, and an assortment plan package.

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