Vendor Punchout - System Features

VPO incorporates numerous features that enable your organization's users to connect to a vendor's shopping site, select items, create requisitions, convert the requisitions into purchasing orders, and then forward the orders to vendors.

Features

Following are the basic features of VPO:

• Allows your organization to define administrators, customize messages, and configure URLs.
• Enables your organization to set up details for defining users and enabling them to connect to vendors' online shopping websites.
• Allows authorized users to access VPO using either a URL provided by your organization or an Action Bar item in the Requisition Listing page in PowerSchool ERP.
• Relies on your organization's existing Vendor List for defining information for vendors who participate in VPO. This information can be modified in VPO without affecting the vendor's Vendor List record.
• Allows items selected from a vendor's shopping site to be submitted as requisitions in PowerSchool ERP and then converted into purchase orders.
• Automatically searches for VPO orders that have been converted to purchase orders and electronically sends them to the vendors for fulfillment.
• Enables your organization to configure VPO for running in live and test environments. The live environment is used for purchasing, while the test environment enables you to train users.