Use of separate rib ledgers in a computerized enterprise resource planning system

US7716092B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Schaub · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Andreas Schaefer · Leverkusen, DE
• Horst Schnoerer · Angelbachtal, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 22, 2003
• Grant date: May 11, 2010
• Expiry date: Jun 21, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/12
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Enterprise management applications perform a “revenues increasing the budget” (RIB) operation on general ledger data and store elements of the general ledger data that have a RIB effect in another ledger, called the “RIB ledger”. RIB ledgers may include sets of RIB rules, storage for documents reflecting all relevant delta values together with the corresponding links to the underlying original transaction documents as well as storage for all relevant aggregated data. Accordingly, when audit operations are performed for RIB budget increases, relevant transaction data is readily available in the RIB ledger. Such copies of the data are more easily accessed than through a search of the larger set of general ledger data, thus facilitating and accelerating use of the RIB techniques in an online system.