James Wesley Oswald

US Patent:

7454369, Nov 18, 2008

Filed:

Oct 17, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/687718

Inventors:

Susan B. Cirulli - Simpsonville SC, US
Nitin Jhingan - Endwell NY, US
Andrew Kofkee - Endicott NY, US
James Oswald - Castle Creek NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06Q 30/00

US Classification:

705 26, 705 1, 705 27

Abstract:

An electronic requisition processing method and system are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of preparing an electronic requisition including a requisition proposal; establishing an electronic list of approvers for the requisition; and at defined times, electronically recalculating the list. Preferably, this list is recalculated after each of at least some of the approvers act on the requisition; and the list is recalculated according to a given set of rules. Also, in the preferred system, the approval process is synchronous, whereby upon submission of the requisition, the requisition is immediately available for approval. Additionally, preferably, when each approver approves, the list is dynamically recalculated to take into account the availability of approvers further down in the list.