Rule-based system for determining price adjustments in a product catalog
    1.
    发明授权
    Rule-based system for determining price adjustments in a product catalog 有权
    用于确定产品目录中价格调整的基于规则的系统

    公开(公告)号:US07233928B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-06-19

    申请号:US10121803

    申请日:2002-04-12

    IPC分类号: G06Q99/00

    摘要: A method for computing a price quote for a product using a contract. The method includes identifying the set of price rules for a plurality of products associated with the contract. Each price rule in the set of price rules is either a hard price rule or a soft price rule. Each hard price rule includes a price rule expression and a price rule type and each soft price rule comprises a price rule type. A collection of price rules is generated including, for each soft rule in the set of price rules, hard price rules that are associated with the product and that have the same price rule type as the soft price rule. Hard price rules that are associated with the contract are also added to the collection of price rules. A pricing scheme that is to be used in order to determine the price quote for the product is selected and used to resolve the hard price rules in the collection of price rules in order to determine the price quote.

    摘要翻译: 使用合同计算产品价格报价的方法。 该方法包括识别与合同相关联的多个产品的价格规则集合。 价格规则集中的每个价格规则都是硬价格规则或软价格规则。 每个硬价格规则包括价格规则表达式和价格规则类型,并且每个软价格规则包括价格规则类型。 产生价格规则的集合,包括对于价格规则集合中的每个软规则,与产品相关联并且具有与软价格规则相同的价格规则类型的硬价格规则。 与合同相关的硬价格规则也被添加到价格规则的收集中。 选择用于确定产品价格报价的定价方案,并用于解决价格规则收集中的硬价格规则,以确定价格报价。

    System and method for grouping products in a catalog
    2.
    发明授权
    System and method for grouping products in a catalog 有权
    目录中产品分组的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07308421B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-12-11

    申请号:US10121816

    申请日:2002-04-12

    IPC分类号: G06Q20/00

    摘要: An apparatus and method for preparing a price quote for a product. The product is selected from among a plurality of products. A determination is made as to whether the product is a member of a particular product collection. This determination includes evaluating a dynamic selection rule set associated with the particular product collection. When the product is determined to be a member of the particular product collection, the method includes the additional steps of (i) identifying one or more price rules associated with the particular product collection and (ii) applying these price rules to the product in order to determine the price quote for the product.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于准备产品价格报价的设备和方法。 产品选自多种产品。 确定产品是否是特定产品系列的成员。 该确定包括评估与特定产品集合相关联的动态选择规则集。 当产品被确定为特定产品集合的成员时,该方法包括以下附加步骤:(i)识别与特定产品集合相关联的一个或多个价格规则,以及(ii)按照顺序将这些价格规则应用于产品 确定产品的报价。

    System and Methods for Multi-Dimension Top Down Negotiation
    4.
    发明申请
    System and Methods for Multi-Dimension Top Down Negotiation 审中-公开
    多维度上下协商的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20100235294A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-09-16

    申请号:US12726235

    申请日:2010-03-17

    IPC分类号: G06Q10/00

    摘要: The present invention relates to systems and methods for multi-dimensional top down negotiations. A user supplies negotiated deal dimensions to an allocator. The allocator may also be able to set some of the dimension values to a default value. A line item generator may then perform transformational algorithms on the negotiated deal dimensions to generate line items. A line item override module may then receive user overrides for specific line items, and update the line items using the overrides. This update may include the recalculating of other line items affected by the override. A summarizer may generate a deal summary using the updated line items. A normalization engine may also normalize the deal summary to current market value to facilitate comparisons of the deal summary. The deal summary may include any of a blended rate per hour, an income, a cost, a product margin, and a net present value. Further, the deal summary may be broken down by geography, period and resource type.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及用于多维自顶向下协商的系统和方法。 用户向协调者提供协商的交易维度。 分配器也可以将某些维度值设置为默认值。 然后,订单项生成器可以在协商的交易维度上执行变换算法以生成订单项。 订单项覆盖模块可能会接收特定订单项的用户覆盖,并使用覆盖更新订单项。 此更新可能包括重新计算受覆盖影响的其他订单项。 汇总程序可以使用更新的订单项生成交易摘要。 归一化引擎还可以将交易摘要归一化为当前市场价值,以便比较交易摘要。 交易摘要可以包括每小时的混合费率,收入,成本,产品保证金和净现值中的任何一种。 此外,交易摘要可以按地理,期间和资源类型进行细分。

    Integrated price management systems with future-pricing and methods therefor
    5.
    发明授权
    Integrated price management systems with future-pricing and methods therefor 有权
    综合价格管理系统与未来定价及其方法

    公开(公告)号:US07613626B1

    公开(公告)日:2009-11-03

    申请号:US11193314

    申请日:2005-07-30

    摘要: The present invention presents systems and methods of future-pricing in an integrated price management system. The invention provides a method of maintaining at least one deal with a lowest price status for at least one product in the price management system by inputting a proposed price for product; searching the price management system for deals having the product with the lowest price status; defining a current lowest price as equal to the price of the product; and, if said proposed price is less than said current lowest price, then computing a potential revenue impact of lowering the price of said product to the proposed price.

    摘要翻译: 本发明在综合价格管理系统中呈现未来定价的系统和方法。 本发明提供一种通过输入产品的建议价格来为价格管理系统中的至少一种产品维持至少一种最低价格状态交易的方法; 在价格管理系统中搜索具有最低价格状态的产品的交易; 将当前最低价格定义为等于产品的价格; 并且如果所述建议价格低于当前最低价格,则计算将所述产品的价格降低到所提出的价格的潜在收入影响。

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN OUTCOME BASED PRICING
    6.
    发明申请
    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN OUTCOME BASED PRICING 审中-公开
    基于成本估价的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20140046731A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-02-13

    申请号:US13572600

    申请日:2012-08-10

    IPC分类号: G06Q30/02

    CPC分类号: G06Q30/0283

    摘要: Systems and methods for outcome based pricing may be useful in conjunction with an enterprise resource planning system in order to generate desired outcomes for a customer and provide optimized profitability for the vendor. Outcome based pricing is achieved by first generating a bundle of line items. The line items are selected from a listing of known goods and services, and each line item includes an output. The summation of the outputs for the bundle of line items achieves a desired outcome. The desired outcome includes a quantity value and a quality value, and is received from a customer. Next, the bundle of line items is priced to determine invoice price, pocket price and margin. More than one such bundle is generated for the desired outcome, each bundle containing different combinations of line items. The pricing for each of these bundles is compared to identify a preferred bundle.

    摘要翻译: 基于结果定价的系统和方法可能与企业资源规划系统结合使用,以便为客户产生期望的结果,并为供应商提供优化的盈利能力。 基于结果的定价是通过首先生成一组订单项来实现的。 订单项从已知商品和服务的列表中选择,并且每个订单项都包含一个输出。 对于行项目的输出的总和达到期望的结果。 期望的结果包括数量值和质量值,并且从客户接收。 接下来,订单项的捆绑是定价发票价格,口袋价格和保证金。 为期望的结果生成多于一个这样的包,每个包含有不同的订单项组合。 比较每个这些捆绑的定价,以确定首选捆绑包。

    System and Methods for Multiple Pricing Comparison
    8.
    发明申请
    System and Methods for Multiple Pricing Comparison 审中-公开
    多重定价比较系统与方法

    公开(公告)号:US20100262548A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-10-14

    申请号:US12726251

    申请日:2010-03-17

    IPC分类号: G06Q10/00 G06Q40/00

    摘要: The present invention relates to systems and methods for generating a deal summary including comparisons of different pricing methods. A user, or a multi-dimension top down negotiator system, supplies a time and materials quote to the system through a negotiation interface. A fixed price quote generator then utilizes the received time and materials quote to generate a fixed price quote. Likewise, a gain share quote generator utilizes the received time and materials quote to generate a gain share quote. The gain share quote may include a variable percentage share on future return on investment. A net present value calculator then generates the net present value for the generated quotes using expected future interest rates. A deal summary generator compiles the net present values for the quotes into a deal summary for comparison purposes. This deal summary is utilized to answer a request for proposal. A pricing method optimizer may select the most profitable pricing method from the time and materials quote, the fixed price quote and the gain share quote.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及用于生成包括不同定价方法的比较的交易摘要的系统和方法。 用户或多维向上协商者系统通过协商界面向系统提供时间和材料报价。 然后固定价格报价生成器利用收到的时间和材料报价来生成固定价格报价。 同样,收益股票报价生成器利用收到的时间和材料报价来生成收益股票报价。 收益份额报价可能包括对未来投资回报率的可变百分比。 净现值计算器然后使用预期的未来利率生成所生成报价的净现值。 交易摘要生成器将报价的净现值编译成交易摘要以进行比较。 该交易摘要用于回答提案请求。 定价方法优化器可以从时间和材料报价,固定报价和收益份额报价中选择最有利可图的定价方法。