Sap Ag

Klaus Kohlmaier

Sabine Finke

Martina Rothley

Ramin Bagheri

A tool for use in a computer system revises a large set of transaction records, for example hundreds or thousands of records, with a convenient user interface. An operator builds a query for a database to retrieve transaction records. The tool generates temporary copies of the transaction records that are responsive to the query and applies a specified data revision operation to each of the temporary copies. The operator may review and approve the data revision before it is committed to the database system. After receiving approval from an operator, the computer system substitutes the revised temporary copies for the transaction records in the database.

Method and apparatus to support mass changes to business objects in an integrated computer system

The present invention provides a system and method for optimizing a purchase order. While generating a purchase order, a purchasing agent may aggregate a company's purchasing requirements into a single purchase order, receive notification of a supplier's offers for discounts to determine whether it would be advantageous to modify a purchase request, or view evaluations of a supplier's past performance. Upon receipt of a purchase request, potential suppliers are identified to fulfill the request. A purchasing agent may then see whether a purchase request may be aggregated with other purchase requests or whether conditions are present that may trigger other opportunities to optimize the purchase order. As a result, a purchase order is generated that has been optimized to reduce costs as well as take advantage of other benefits that the purchaser may be interested in.

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Leimen, Germany

Klaus Kohlmaier