Enabling supplier catalogs based on procurement data from buyer community

Abstract

A computer implemented method maintaining, by a processor, a database including a plurality of records of one or more supplier system catalogs enabled by a plurality of buyer systems. The method includes tracking, by the processor, a plurality of query expressions and corresponding query results generated from the database by a specific buyer system of the plurality of buyer systems, the query results identifying matches between the query expressions and a set of records of supplier system catalogs of the one or more supplier system catalogs enabled and integrated for procurement with the specific buyer system the at least one unassociated supplier system catalog being enabled and integrated for procurement with at least one buyer system of the plurality of buyer systems other than the specific buyer system. The method further includes determining, from the plurality of query expressions and corresponding query results, the query expressions that satisfy particular criteria for low match rates and identifying additional matches between the query expressions and at least one unassociated supplier system catalog outside of the set of enabled and integrated supplier system catalogs, the identifying based upon an analysis of community buyer system data tracked with respect to the at least one unassociated supplier system. A report is generated based upon the additional matches and transmitted, across a computer network, to the specific buyer system.