US Patent 12020185 Drag and drop allocation in PLM

A system includes software that mimics a paper based allocation process. Business objects can be presented graphically on a touch screen, and users can allocate business objects with other business objects using a drag and drop motion. For example, a symbol representing a business object can be dragged and dropped onto a symbol representing another business object. This will trigger a relationship to be created in the PLM database between the two business objects.