Sap Ag

Ramin Bagheri

Sabine Finke

Martina Rothley

Klaus Kohlmaier

In a business automation software system, a specifier setting a reminder is added to a business object to provide a arbitrary reminder to the user adding the reminder. Prior to forwarding a business object from a sender to a recipient, a specifier is added to the business object indicating a threshold time limit for a reminder to be sent to the sender. If the threshold time limit specified in the business object is determined to have expired, the reminder is automatically sent to the sender.

Setting reminders within processing of a business document

In a reimbursement request workflow system and method, a processor may generate a reimbursement request by converting at least a selected portion of a purchase order request into the reimbursement request or by retrieving content provided by an external catalogue, extracting data from the retrieved content, and populating fields of a copy of a reimbursement request template copy with the extracted data or a portion thereof.

System and method for generating a reimbursement request

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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Schwetzingen, Germany

Ramin Bagheri