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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2001
Stanley Philip Cason, Johnson City, NY (US);
John Irving Munson, Binghamton, NY (US);
Stanley Philip Cason, Johnson City, NY (US);
John Irving Munson, Binghamton, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An enterprise provides procurement services to a plurality of companies organized in company groups, each company group including those companies using the same accounting rules. These services are accessed by customer company employees, or users. The creation and maintenance of user profile for each user authorized by a customer company is accomplished according company groupings. Company name is passed to the enterprise in a human resource file or interface, to which a company grouping code is added. That data is loaded into employee staging tables from which an application builds a user profile table which, for new users, does not include company code and location code. These codes will be populated to the profile the first time the user logs in for service and selects from a drop down list describing all work locations for his company group a line item including a description of his work location.