Sap Ag

Philippe Drouin

Michael Seubert

Dietmar Nowotny

Werner Gnan

Thilo Kraehmer

Joachim Kenntner

Daniel Bock

Markus A Peter

Daniel Goldmann

Robert Doerner

Otto Makris

Rudolf Winkel

Jochen A Rasch

Axel Kuehl

Karsten Soegaard Egetoft

Andreas Stier

Adam Kiwon

Giovanni Deledda

Frank Thome

Jochen F Thierer

Corinne Kuster

Dirk Becker

Burkhard Weiss

Michael Redmann

Arndt Koester

Patrick Gross

Ralf Dielschneider

Andreas Krompholz

Ramesh Nn

Jan Stephan

Sergej Stotz

Eryi Zhang

Uwe Frankenhauser

A preference management framework allows for the management of vendor-based vendor declarations and of vendor declarations for customer's purposes, preference determination based on preference agreements, the provision of statements regarding the preference eligibility of goods based on preference determinations, and the printing of several preference related documents according to the relevant agreements. The framework is flexible enough for users to easily develop their own preference schemes for new preference agreements. Users may first define (or modify) their responsible areas for preference management by assigning (or removing) administrative units of a business to themselves. Then the users may begin the preference processing by choosing one of their assigned administrative units and any preference agreements relevant to that administrative unit may be automatically determined for possible following steps in preference processes which can now be started.

Framework for implementing trade preference agreements

A business object model, which reflects data that used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction.

Consistent set of interfaces derived from a business object model

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Sinsheim, Germany

Philippe Drouin