Automate Purchase Order Form Submissions from Outlook Excel Attachments with AI — n8n Workflow

High complexity⚡ Trigger16 nodes🏷️ Invoice Processing👁 1,989 viewsby Jimleuk

Overview

This n8n template imports purchase order submissions from Outlook and converts attached purchase order forms in XLSX format into structured output.

Data entry jobs with user-submitted XLSX forms are time consuming, incredibly mundane but necessary tasks which in likelihood are inherited and critical to business operation.

While we could dream of system overhauls and modernisation, the fact is that change is hard. There is another way however - using n8n and AI! N8N offers an end-to-end soluti

Nodes used

Microsoft OutlookCodeOpenAI Chat ModelText ClassifierInformation Extractor

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2. Manually Convert XLSX to Markdown

Learn more about the Extract From File node

Today's LLMs cannot parse Ex

3. Extract Purchase Order Details using AI

Learn more about the Information Extractor

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This n8n template imports purchase order submissions fr

Data entry jobs with user-submitt

PURCHASE ORDER EXAMPLE

This is the purchase order XLSX which is used an exampl

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4. Use Simple Validation to Save Time and Eff

Learn more about the Edit Fields node

With our extracted output, we can r

1. Wait For Incoming Purchase Orders

How it Works

1
Trigger
The workflow starts with a trigger trigger.
2
Process
Data flows through 16 nodes, connecting code, extractfromfile, if.
3
Output
The workflow completes its automation and delivers the result to the configured destination.

Node Details (16)

Microsoft Outlook

microsoftOutlook

Code

code

OpenAI Chat Model

n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenAi

Text Classifier

n8n-nodes-langchain.textClassifier

Information Extractor

n8n-nodes-langchain.informationExtractor

How to Import This Workflow

1Click Download JSON button on the right to save the workflow file.
2Open your n8n instance. Go to Workflows → New → Import from file.
3Select the downloaded automate-purchase-order-form-submissions-from-outlook-excel-attachments-with-ai file and click Import.
4Set up credentials for each service node (API keys, OAuth, etc.).
5Click Test Workflow to verify everything works, then activate it.

Or paste directly in n8n → Import from JSON:

{ "name": "Automate Purchase Order Form Submissions from Outlook Excel Attachments with AI", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

codeextractfromfileifinformationextractorlmchatopenaimicrosoftoutlookmicrosoftoutlooktriggersettextclassifier

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Nodes16

Complexityhigh

Triggertrigger

CategoryInvoice Processing

Created by

Jimleuk

@jimleuk

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