> ## Documentation Index
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# Purchase Order Skills

> Vantage Purchase Order skills extract data from POs across regions — EU (DE/FR/IT/NL/ES) and US — with classification, processing, and document splitting.

ABBYY Vantage offers a set of built-in skills designed for processing purchase orders.

A purchase order is a document sent by a buyer to a supplier that lists the goods or services that the buyer wants to purchase. A purchase order typically contains the following information:

* A list of goods or services purchased
* The total amount payable for the goods or services
* The number and date of the purchase order
* The expected date of delivery

As information provided on purchase orders varies from region to region, each region requires its own purchase order skills, with region-specific data fields and validation rules.

## Available Purchase Order Skills

ABBYY Vantage includes the following built-in purchase order skills:

* [Purchase Order EU](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/built-in-skills/po-skills/purchase-order-eu) for purchase orders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain
* [Purchase Order US](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/built-in-skills/po-skills/purchase-order-us) for purchase orders in the USA.

## Multi-Region Processing

To process purchase orders from multiple regions within one workflow, ABBYY Vantage offers the following built-in skills:

* [Purchase Order Classifier](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/built-in-skills/po-skills/purchase-order-classifier)
* [Purchase Order Processing](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/built-in-skills/po-skills/purchase-order-processing)

The built-in purchase order skills have been trained on a large document set and provide high accuracy of data identification and extraction.

## Data Catalogs

The built-in purchase order skills make use of data catalogs named "Buyers" (of type Document Receiver Companies) and "Suppliers" (of type Document Issuer Companies), each containing the following columns:

### Buyers Data Catalog

| Column         | Description                       |
| :------------- | :-------------------------------- |
| Id             | Unique identifier                 |
| VATID          | VAT identification number         |
| BusinessUnitId | Business unit identifier          |
| IBAN           | International Bank Account Number |
| BankAccount    | Bank account number               |
| BankCode       | Bank routing code                 |
| Name           | Company name                      |
| ZIP            | Postal code                       |
| Street         | Street address                    |
| City           | City name                         |
| State          | State or province                 |
| CountryCode    | Country code                      |

### Suppliers Data Catalog

| Column      | Description               |
| :---------- | :------------------------ |
| Id          | Unique identifier         |
| VATID       | VAT identification number |
| Name        | Company name              |
| ZIP         | Postal code               |
| Street      | Street address            |
| City        | City name                 |
| State       | State or province         |
| CountryCode | Country code              |

For more information about data catalogs and how to add custom data to a data catalog, see the Skills Designer documentation.

## Neural Network Detection

If you are not using data catalogs, the **Buyer/Name**, **Supplier/Name**, **Supplier/Address**, **Buyer/Address**, **Buyer/Tax ID**, and **Supplier/Tax ID** fields will be detected and captured using neural networks. If you want to select a specific record from your database, use data catalogs. For more information about the company detection, see the Advanced Designer documentation.