System and method for product vendor selection

摘要: Systems and methods for facilitating complex purchasing decision across a plurality of potential product vendors are based on accumulating pricing, logistical (inventory, shipping, transport, etc.), performance (past delivery timeliness, satisfaction, etc.) information from spectrum relevant sources (vendors, shippers, warehouses, distributors, manufacturers, using linear optimization to identify one or more recommended whom buy given at moment. The analysis is preferably further refined by considering vendor selection priorities the purchaser, which may be either purchaser-specific generalized category purchaser (such as government versus private, employee size, etc.).