# Purchase Requests

Raise and approve requests to buy, the entry point to every procurement.

URL: https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/purchase-request



A **Purchase Request** (PR) is where every procurement begins. You raise a PR to describe what your organisation needs to buy, then it moves through your approval workflow before any spend is committed. Any user can create one; procurement reviews and approves it.

How a PR is fulfilled depends on how you source it. If you already know the supplier or are buying from a catalog, the request converts straight into a [Purchase Order](https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/purchase-orders.md). If you want competitive quotes, procurement picks it up as a [Sourcing Request](https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/sourcing-requests.md) instead.

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    A[Create PR] --> B[Procurement approval]
    B --> C[Direct to Purchase Order]
    B --> D[Send to Sourcing Request]
```

Guides [#guides]

* [**Create PR from Existing Catalog**](https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/purchase-request/create-pr-existing-catalog.md): Purchase items from a pre-negotiated Term Contract or Punchout catalog.
* [**Create PR for a Known Supplier**](https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/purchase-request/create-pr-supplier.md): Raise a direct-sourcing request when you already know the supplier.
* [**Create PR for Sourcing**](https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/purchase-request/create-pr-sourcing.md): Ask procurement to source competitive quotes from multiple suppliers.
* [**Create PR from Punchout**](https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/purchase-request/create-pr-punchout.md): Create a request by shopping from the Eezee Punchout catalog.
* [**Review Purchase Requests**](https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/purchase-request/review-pr.md): Approve a purchase request assigned to you for procurement review.
* [**Cancel a Purchase Request**](https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/purchase-request/cancel-pr.md): Withdraw a submitted purchase request that is no longer needed.