Oracle International Corporation

Thomas Workman

Umesh Madhav Apte

John Leong Yee

Michael Paul Demele

David J Bell

Hui Dong

Tamijselvy Muralidharan

Jillian Hartnell

Hsiaowen Eddie Mou

Therese Gorman

Elaine Wong

Jose Hernandez

Cyril Jose Theophilose Ponvila

Embodiments of the invention provide for performing a search across business objects of one or more business processes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide for performing a search across business objects of one or more business processes based on an index of business objects and additional information supplementing the index. The additional information can indicate business objects of different types or of different business processes that are related to the indexed business objects. According to various embodiments of the present invention, providing business object and business process searching can include but is not limited to: the ability to more quickly find related documents using search in one step; the ability to do so without using menus; the ability to quickly refine search results with common facets; and/or the ability to do advanced common attributes searches across business objects such as comments for a supplier across numerous business objects.

Business process global searching

A mass change of values of a specified attribute (e.g., buyer identity) of multiple purchase orders can be performed automatically in conjunction with additional automatically performed operations, and all in response to a single user activation of a button control, without requiring any further human intervention. The additional operations can include the creation of change orders for each changed purchase order; the logging of each change made to each purchase order in an audit history; the requesting of change approvals for purchase orders; and the preparation of the created change orders for communication to suppliers to whom the changed purchase orders pertain. Thus, each supplier can made aware via an automated process that he is now dealing with a different entity than before.

One click to update buyer in mass on purchaser orders and prepare changes to communicate to supplier

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Layton, UT, United States of America

Thomas Workman