What is claimed is:
1. A method for the formation of a planarizing coating film on a substrate surface which comprises the steps of:
(a) coating the substrate surface with a coating solution containing, as a film-forming solute uniformly dissolved in an organic solvent, a nitrogen-containing organic compound selected from the group consisting of melamine, benzoguanamine, acetoguanamine, glycoluril, urea, thiourea, guanidine, dicyandiamide, alkylene ureas and succinamide having, in a molecule, at least two amino or imino groups each substituted for the nitrogen-bonded hydrogen atom by a hydroxyalkyl group or an alkoxyalkyl group to form a coating layer;
(b) drying the coating layer by evaporating the organic solvent to form a dried coating layer; and
(c) subjecting the dried coating layer to a baking treatment at a temperature in the range from 150 to 250 C.
2. The method for the formation of a planarizing coating film on a substrate surface as claimed in claim 1 in which the alkyl group of the hydroxyalkyl group and alkoxyalkyl group substituting the nitrogen-containing organic compound has 1 to 4 carbon atoms.
3. The method for the formation of a planarizing coating film on a substrate surface as claimed in claim 1 in which the alkoxy group of the alkoxyalkyl group substituting the nitrogen-containing organic compound has 1 to 4 carbon atoms.
4. The method for the formation of a planarizing coating film on a substrate surface as claimed in claim 1 in which the film-forming solute in the coating solution is a methoxymethylated benzoguanamine or a methoxymethylated melamine.
5. The method for the formation of a planarizing coating film on a substrate surface as claimed in claim 1 in which the organic solvent of the coating solution is selected from the group consisting of alkyleneglycol monoalkyl ethers and esters thereof.
6. The method for the formation of a planarizing coating film on a substrate surface as claimed in claim 1 in which the baking treatment in step (c) is conducted for a length of time in the range from 1 to 30 minutes.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A management server, comprising:
a memory comprising rules for determining vendor management requirements; and
a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to:
identify a plurality of risk elements associated with a vendor that supplies one or more products to an entity;
identify any completed management actions for the vendor that mitigate risk associated with any of the identified risk elements;
determine a residual risk for at least one of the identified risk elements according to a completed management action that reduces risk associated with the at least one of the identified risk elements; and
determine whether to assign a vendor manager to the vendor according to the residual risk for the at least one of the identified risk elements.
2. The server of claim 1, wherein the processor is further operable to:
receive information associated with initiation of a transaction with the vendor, the initiation of the transaction occurring after a first determination of whether to assign the vendor manager to the vendor;
determine that the transaction occurring after the first determination increases the residual risk associated with the vendor for the at least one of the identified risk elements; and
responsive to determining that the transaction occurring after the first determination increases the residual risk, assign the vendor manager to the vendor.
3. The server of claim 1, wherein the processor is further operable to:
determine that the vendor supplies products to a plurality of organizations within the entity; and
responsive to determining that the vendor supplies products to a plurality of organizations within the entity, assign the vendor manager to the vendor.
4. The server of claim 1, wherein the processor is further operable to:
determine a first residual risk value associated with a first risk element of the plurality of risk elements associated with the vendor;
determine a second residual risk value associated with a second risk element of the plurality of risk elements associated with the vendor;
responsive to determining the first residual risk value and the second residual risk value, assign the vendor manager to the vendor, wherein the vendor manager would not have been assigned based on either of the first residual risk value and the second residual risk value alone.
5. The server of claim 1, wherein the processor is further operable to determine the residual risk for the at least one of the identified risk elements by analyzing a vendor profile associated with the vendor.
6. The server of claim 1, wherein the vendor manager assigns a management action for the vendor distinct from any of a plurality of predetermined management actions stored in an action mappings database.
7. The server of claim 1, wherein the processor is further operable to:
determine an inherent risk value associated with the at least one of the identified risk elements;
determine a risk reduction value associated with the completed management action; and
calculate the residual risk for the at least one of the identified risk elements according to the inherent risk and the risk reduction value.
8. A method for determining vendor management requirements, comprising:
identifying a plurality of risk elements associated with a vendor that supplies one or more products to an entity;
identifying any completed management actions for the vendor that mitigate risk associated with any of the identified risk elements;
determining, using a processor, a residual risk for at least one of the identified risk elements according to a completed management action that reduces risk associated with the at least one of the identified risk elements; and
determining, using the processer, whether to assign a vendor manager to the vendor according to the residual risk for the at least one of the identified risk elements.
9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:
receiving information associated with initiation of a transaction with the vendor, the initiation of the transaction occurring after a first determination of whether to assign the vendor manager to the vendor;
determining that the transaction occurring after the first determination increases the residual risk associated with the vendor for the at least one of the identified risk elements; and
responsive to determining that the transaction occurring after the first determination increases the residual risk, assigning the vendor manager to the vendor.
10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:
determining that the vendor supplies products to a plurality of organizations within the entity; and
responsive to determining that the vendor supplies products to a plurality of organizations within the entity, assigning the vendor manager to the vendor.
11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:
determining a first residual risk value associated with a first risk element of the plurality of risk elements associated with the vendor;
determining a second residual risk value associated with a second risk element of the plurality of risk elements associated with the vendor;
responsive to determining the first residual risk value and the second residual risk value, assigning the vendor manager to the vendor, wherein the vendor manager would not have been assigned based on either of the first residual risk value and the second residual risk value alone.
12. The method of claim 8, further comprising determining the residual risk for the at least one of the identified risk elements by analyzing a vendor profile associated with the vendor.
13. The method of claim 8, wherein the vendor manager assigns a management action for the vendor distinct from any of a plurality of predetermined management actions stored in an action mappings database.
14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:
determining an inherent risk value associated with the at least one of the identified risk elements;
determining a risk reduction value associated with the completed management action; and
calculating the residual risk for the at least one of the identified risk elements according to the inherent risk and the risk reduction value.
15. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising logic, the logic when executed by a processor, operable to:
identify a plurality of risk elements associated with a vendor that supplies one or more products to an entity;
identify any completed management actions for the vendor that mitigate risk associated with any of the identified risk elements;
determine a residual risk for at least one of the identified risk elements according to a completed management action that reduces risk associated with the at least one of the identified risk elements; and
determine whether to assign a vendor manager to the vendor according to the residual risk for the at least one of the identified risk elements.
16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the logic is further operable to:
receive information associated with initiation of a transaction with the vendor, the initiation of the transaction occurring after a first determination of whether to assign the vendor manager to the vendor;
determine that the transaction occurring after the first determination increases the residual risk associated with the vendor for the at least one of the identified risk elements; and
responsive to determining that the transaction occurring after the first determination increases the residual risk, assign the vendor manager to the vendor.
17. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the logic is further operable to:
determine that the vendor supplies products to a plurality of organizations within the entity; and
responsive to determining that the vendor supplies products to a plurality of organizations within the entity, assign the vendor manager to the vendor.
18. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the logic is further operable to:
determine a first residual risk value associated with a first risk element of the plurality of risk elements associated with the vendor;
determine a second residual risk value associated with a second risk element of the plurality of risk elements associated with the vendor;
responsive to determining the first residual risk value and the second residual risk value, assign the vendor manager to the vendor, wherein the vendor manager would not have been assigned based on either of the first residual risk value and the second residual risk value alone.
19. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the logic is further operable to determine the residual risk for the at least one of the identified risk elements by analyzing a vendor profile associated with the vendor.
20. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the processor is further operable to:
determine an inherent risk value associated with the at least one of the identified risk elements;
determine a risk reduction value associated with the completed management action; and
calculate the residual risk for the at least one of the identified risk elements according to the inherent risk and the risk reduction value.