摘要 |
Disclosed herein is a computer implemented management system for use by an automobile manufacturer for consolidating payments to a number of automobile parts suppliers for a numbe r of concurrent individual payment plans, each for one tool purchased from the one of automobile parts supplier s and used in the production of automobile parts by the automobile parts supplier, comprising an entry scree n module for entering payables data for each tool from the automobile parts supplier; the entry screen module having a number of fields to receive a number of data items including a time period over which payments are to be made; an d a total amount to be paid over the time period; the fields also including one or more of a tool identification code; an automobile parts supplier identification code; a payment plan start date; a payment plan end date; and a payment plan rate; a calculation module for calculating a payment plan for each of the incremental payments t o be made over the payment period, said accounting module generating a data set encoding the payment plan; a database for storing the data sets; a payment module for assembling a payment transaction instruction for each of a series of successive payment periods, the payment transaction instruction including a payment code for ea ch of theautomobile suppliers due to be paid in the payment period, each payment code including the incremental payments to a corresponding automobile supplier; and an output module for generating an output report including the payment transaction instruction.
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