# Sourcing Requests

Consolidate purchase request line items before they become an RFQ.

URL: https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/sourcing-requests



A **Sourcing Request** is the staging area between a [Purchase Request](https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/purchase-request.md) and an RFQ. When you ask procurement to source competitive quotes, the PR's line items land here so a buyer can group them by supplier or category before going to market.

As the buyer, you tidy up what will be sourced together while the request is still **OPEN**, then confirm it to create a draft [RFQ](https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/sourcing.md). You can shift line items onto another sourcing request, or spin them off into a new one, before you convert.

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    A[Line items consolidate] --> B[Shift line items]
    A --> C[Confirm and convert to RFQ]
    B --> C
```

Guides [#guides]

* [**Shift Line Items**](https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/sourcing-requests/shift-line-items.md): Reassign line items to another sourcing request or a new one.
* [**Convert Sourcing Request to RFQ**](https://www.procureflow.ai/docs/sourcing-requests/sourcing-to-rfq.md): Confirm a consolidated sourcing request and create a draft RFQ.