Sending PO to vendor without EDI

Hi All,
I have a requirement to send PO details to Vendor as a flat file or XML file (Any format other than IDOC and PDF) without using EDI. The reason is these are small level vendors and they don't have EDI set up and they want to receive PO in a user friendly format from which they can simply copy, paste the data or upload directly into their system. I have come up with the following options according to my knowledge.
Trigger options:
1.       Instant trigger using output control - Creating a new output type and assigning a custom program to the processing routine, which will be used to create a file.
2.       Overnight Job - Collective - Program which can be scheduled in background and check for the POs created on a given day and extract all of them in a single file and send to vendor in one go.
Formatting options:
1.       Flat file (Word document, Excel or Text pad)
2.       XML
Sending options:
1.       FTP
2.       EMAIL
3.       Middle ware (Webmethod) - Again 2 options in this, one placing the flat file in SAP application directory and Middleware application picking up the file and sending to Vendor. Option 2 is sending an IDOC to middleware and middleware converting the IDOC to XML format and dispatching to vendor.
Please let me know which will be the most suitable option for the given scenario. Also let me know your views on the options whether these are workable and the difficulties in achieving them technically.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions...

Hi,
There are some points needs to considered while designing the system:
1) Volume of POs that needs to be sent to vendor.
2) Frequency of the transmission.
3) How do you want to handle the changes done to POs(I am sure there will be changes to PO).
4) Future expansion to other vendors.
As you mentioned option of overnight job will be easier. You can capture the POs created in to a z-table via
user exit and write a program which runs daily pulls the POs in the z-table. Then you can FTP the file to vendor.
Hope this helps.
Ramesh

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