Purchase Orders and Mass Line Item Load

Hi all,

Is anyone using a solution/process/tool which would allow users to load a template with mutiple line items to create a PO?  We have a request from our business to have the capability to load line items enmass instead of hand keying them one at a time.  We currently do not use contracts or vendor portal but do have Purchasing and ePro.

Base process requested:

• We provide a template (excel or some data sheet) to our vendors.

• They input the items to be purchased.  This can sometimes be hundreds of lines.

• Vendor sends it back to us

• We load data from template into PeopleSoft to create a PO.  By we I mean our buyers.

• The rest of the process is already in place to process PO.

I hope this makes sense but let me know if more detail is needed.  I am just looking for options to meet our customer's request.

Thanks,

Mike