Mudita M Purang

US Patent:

6963854, Nov 8, 2005

Filed:

Mar 3, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/517983

Inventors:

Dean Boyd - Cottage Grove OR, US
Mike Gordon - San Mateo CA, US
Jorgen Andersson - Sunnyvale CA, US
Chia-Hung Charles Tai - Sunnyvale CA, US
Feng Yang - Sunnyvale CA, US
Anupama Kolamala - Mt. View CA, US
Greg Cook - Mt. View CA, US
Thomas Guardino - Eugene OR, US
Mudita Purang - Sunnyvale CA, US
Prabhakar Krishnamurthy - Pleasanton CA, US
Mark Cooke - El Granada CA, US
Ravi Nandiwada - San Jose CA, US
Brian Monteiro - Sunnyvale CA, US
Steve Haas - Menlo Park CA, US

Assignee:

Manugistics, Inc. - Rockville MD

International Classification:

G09F017/60

US Classification:

705 37, 705 1, 705 35, 705400

Abstract:

A business process and computer system known as the “Target Pricing System” (TPS) that generates an optimum bid or value for a competitively bid good or service. The system is resident on one or more host processors in connection with one or more data stores, and includes a product model that defines list values for the bid using stored price data and costs the values using stored cost data, a competitor net price model that calculates an equivalent competitor net price for the value, and.