METHOD FOR LINKING BUSINESS SUPPORT SYSTEM AND JOB FLOW SYSTEM

• Main Authors: SUZUKI YUUHO, FUKUDA HIROTADA, SUZUKI TAKEHIRO, HIBI YUKIHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.09.2000
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make confirmable the conditions of a documentary examination by a job flow system from a business support system by registering a job to be requested to the job flow system as a task of the business support system. SOLUTION: For example, an in-house circulating approval request processing of an estimation request as a job for performing an approval request according to designated circulation order, before requesting processing, the personal name or belonging information of the in-house circulating approval request destination is inputted from an input device (S202). Besides, an approval limit or priority of the in-house circulating approval request is inputted (S204 and S207). A prepared estimate and job flow request destination information are dispatched to a job flow processing part, the job flow ID of a relevant client is dispatched to the job flow processing part and the flow table of a lob flow, to which the in-house circulating approval request is requested and acquired (S208 and S209). The information acquisition, completion judgement and warning judgement of the job flow are repeated until the job flow of the in-house circulating approval request (S209, S210 and S214) is completed, and in the case of all approval, the completion of an estimate request task is displayed on a display device (S221 and S212).