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Slingshot’s competitors require you to manually copy the lines from your web shopping cart into a requisition or purchase order.  Slingshot automates this process.  Shop on your supplier’s web site in the normal manner.  When you are ready to check out, click a button and the contents of your shopping cart are instantly copied into a Slingshot Requisition or Purchase Order.   Slingshot automatically adds the items selected to its product master table and maintains a relationship between your stock number and the supplier’s.  This avoids the creation of duplicate products when the same item is purchased at a later date.

“Shopping Cart Copy” saves time and...

“Procurement PunchOut” is the interaction between a vendor's web storefront and a buyer's procurement application.

Slingshot supports PunchOut when creating either requisitions or purchase orders.  Click a link to access your supplier’s web site.  Shop on the site and check out.  The contents of your shopping cart are returned to Slingshot and added to the current requisition or purchase order.   Once approved, a purchase order is automatically transmitted to the supplier.  

A parameter now allows you to enforce a final buyer review of the PunchOut purchase order before it is transmitted. A second new feature allows you to modify...