Claims
- 1. A method for maintaining synchronization of ledger accounts between a back-end procurement system and a front-end requisition and catalog system, comprising the steps of:
associating a plurality of companies within a company group, the companies within said group using the same chart of accounts; maintaining a chart of accounts in said procurement system; periodically extracting from said chart of accounts, account identification indicia and descriptive information for a given company; communicating said indicia and information to said requisition and catalog system; at said requisition and catalog system, storing said indicia and information in a data store of valid general ledger accounts associated with said company group for said given company.
- 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
associating commodity codes with said account identification indicia; and pushing commodity code/account identification associations to all other companies in the company group of said given company.
- 3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of:
responsive to a user request for a requisition of a commodity, providing a selection list of valid account codes and descriptions authorized for purchase by users from companies within said company group.
- 4. A procurement accounting system, comprising:
a back-end procurement system; a front-end requisition and catalog system; a first chart of accounts store maintained in said procurement system; a second chart of accounts maintained in said requisition and catalog system; an extract utility at said procurement system for periodically extracting from said first chart of accounts, account identification indicia and descriptive information for a given company; an update utility at said requisition and catalog system for associating said account identification indicia with commodity codes and company group codes; and a data store for storing said indicia and information.
- 5. The system of claim 4, further comprising:
a company group table for storing company identifiers associated with each of a plurality of company group codes.
- 6. The system of claim 5, said update utility further for pushing to all companies within a company group code the associations of commodity codes and account identification indicia entered for a given company within said company group codes.
- 7. The system of claim 6, further comprising:
an output device responsive to a user request for a purchase of a commodity for displaying a selection list of valid account codes and descriptive information for said company group code.
- 8. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for maintaining synchronization of ledger accounts between a back-end procurement system and a front-end requisition and catalog system, said method steps comprising:
associating a plurality of companies within a company group, the companies within said group using the same chart of accounts; maintaining a chart of accounts in said procurement system; periodically extracting from said chart of accounts, account identification indicia and descriptive information for a given company; communicating said indicia and information to said requisition and catalog system; at said requisition and catalog system storing said indicia and information in a data store of valid general ledger accounts associated with said company group code for said given company.
- 9. A computer program product or computer program element for maintaining synchronization of ledger accounts between a back-end procurement system and a front-end requisition and catalog system according to method steps comprising:
associating a plurality of companies within a company group, the companies within said group using the same chart of accounts; maintaining a chart of accounts in said procurement system; periodically extracting from said chart of accounts, account identification indicia and descriptive information for a given company; communicating said indicia and information to said requisition and catalog system; at said requisition and catalog system, storing said indicia and information in a data store of valid general ledger accounts associated with said company group code for said given company.
CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The following U.S. patent applications, filed concurrently or otherwise copending, are assigned to the assignee hereof and contain subject matter related, in certain respect, to the subject matter of the present application.
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[0019] The above-identified patent applications are incorporated herein by reference.