The employee self-service procurement portal is a tool for employees to easily find products available for self-service procurement and create purchase requests with pre-defined information.
Use this activity to find the products that you need to procure. This could either be done using a free text search, using the regular filters on the columns in the page or by browsing the structure of categories defined for the catalog. You could also select and filter on favorite products or look at orders previously created.
The products shown in the portal could either be parts registered as part numbers in the application or products from a hosted supplier catalog.
Note that you could also use the portal to buy products to a specific work task or project activity. Then you should either open the portal from the work task or activity or add the reference in the shopping cart later on in the process.
A self-service catalog must have been created and published.
As a result of this activity you have identified the products or services to add to the shopping cart.