The employee self-service procurement portal is a tool for employees to easily find products available for self-service procurement and create procurement requests with pre-defined information. If the products you are looking for is not available in the self-service portal, there is a possibility to create a free-text procurement request for defined suppliers and add that to the shopping cart.
The user needs to enter a description an estimated price and the quantities and there is also a possibility to complement with additional information like the suppliers part number.
A self-service catalog must have been created and published with free-text procurement support enabled for the supplier.
As a result of this activity lines are added for the free-text request to the self-service shopping cart and you can proceed to submit the procurement request.