Purchasing Attributes Set Up Automation and Maintenance

Hello,

I am looking for anyone that might have successfully automated their item Purchasing Attributes Set up - if so - how...

We are looking at populating values for Purchasing Attrubutes and the Item Vendor Relationship by creating a couple of new mapping tables/pages that our folks will maintain. Manufacter/Vendor Map and a Vendor/Buyer Map

For example:

We have a 3rd party system that new items are created and interfaced into the PS item master. The information includes the preferred manufacture, category, etc. but no values related to Purchasing Attrubutes.

When the item is approved and interfaced into PS we currently have folks that enter the Purchasing values, buyer, lead time, vendor, vendor loc, price, etc.