Understanding External Expense Data

Organizations are simplifying the administrative operations that are associated with expense reimbursement. PeopleSoft Expenses accepts and processes data from outside sources, such as credit card suppliers and benchmark data distributors. You can use these external sources to provide expense data electronically, which reduces the data entry demands on employees. Using electronic data saves time in submitting and approving expenses, and helps monitor the legitimacy of expenses.

For successful expense processing, data files are already formatted properly for staging and loading. Depending on the data source, staging processes differ; however, you use the Load External Data Application Engine process (EX_DATA_LOAD) to load external data.