Loading Purchase Order(PO) Information from External Source

Hi all,

Looking for some guidance on loading purchase orders into PeopleSoft Purchasing from an external source. We are currently using the delivered purchasing functionality but are transitioning to an outside source. Current versions: PS 9.2, PT 8.60.

As some background info, our implementation will not include loading requisitions into PS.

We are attempting to use the staging tables PO_HDR_STG, PO_ITM_STG, and PO_DISTRIB_STG as described in PeopleBooks: Manually Constructing the Purchasing Staging Tables. We are then running the PO_POCALC and PO_POCREATE processes.

While we can successfully create a purchase order, I have two initial questions around this process: