公开(公告)号：US10289977B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-14

申请号：US15336790

申请日：2016-10-28

Applicant: SAP SE

Inventor： Sudhir Bhojwani ,  Lalitha Rajagopalan ,  Anil Mandava ,  Robert Wells ,  Tanvi Bakul Shah ,  Maria Elena Gammon ,  Prashant Bhagat ,  Steven Weigand ,  Yuan Tung ,  Gopalakrishnan Sundaram

IPC: G06Q10/08 ,  G06Q30/04 ,  G06F16/27 ,  G06F16/95 ,  G06F16/22 ,  G06F16/248 ,  G06F16/23 ,  G06F16/2455

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives a request for suppliers associated with a location and a category. The program also identifies a matrix, a hierarchy of locations associated with the matrix, and a hierarchy of categories associated with the matrix. The program further determines a set of suppliers by based on the location, the category, the matrix, the hierarchy of locations, and the hierarchy of categories.