Method and system for providing an end-to-end business process for electronic supplier qualification and quality management

US7353497B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• John S. Maresca · Hopewell Junction, US
• Robert Hayes · Nashville, US
• Brent R. Jensen · Austin, US
• Edward Kobeda · Poughkeepsie, US
• Eric Lambert · Wappingers Falls, US
• Katherine J. Pearsall · Georgetown, US
• Benjamin J. Steele · Newburgh, US
• Michael J. Whitney · Cary, US
• Paul A. Zulpa · Woodbury, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 29, 2000
• Grant date: Apr 1, 2008
• Expiry date: Jul 5, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06395
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to an integrated computer-based method and system for facilitating supplier qualification and quality management. This computer-based method and system includes a host system receiving a request from a user system to execute supplier qualification and quality management software, executing the requested software at the host system, sending results of the software execution to the user system, receiving input at the host system from the user system in response to the software execution, and providing the user system with output generated as a result of executing the software. The supplier qualification and quality management software includes a selection module, a qualification module and a quality module.