Manage Central RFQs
Application component: Fiori UI for RFQ/Quotation
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Sourcing and Procurement
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Central Requisitioning (S/4, Ariba Ctrl Proc.)
Scope items: Central Sourcing
Description:  With this app you can display and manage central RFQs in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud system that acts as a hub system. In the Process Purchase Requisitions Centrally app, you can create central RFQs from purchase requisitions that are created in the hub system, or from items that have been extracted from the connected systems and imported to the hub system. The purchase requisitions that were created in the hub system are replicated to the respective connected systems. 
Manage Central RFQs is part of Central Sourcing under the procurement hub topic. Central Purchaser can search, view, maintain submission deadline and bidders and publish the Central RFQs created from Manage Purchase Requisitions Centrally app.
Key features:  You can use this app to:   Display RFQs that were created in the hub system   Search for RFQs To search for an RFQ, you can use filters, for example, editing status, RFQ number, company code, status, purchasing organization, purchasing group, creation date and quotation deadline. You can also use the value help enabled for these filters.   Edit central RFQs that have been created from the Process Purchase Requisitions Centrally app You can create central RFQs from purchase requisitions that are created in the hub system, or from items that have been extracted from the connected systems and imported to the hub system. To do this, in the app Process Purchase Requisitions Centrally select the purchase requisition items, and from the Create Document drop-down list, choose Create Central RFQ option. The item information is replicated to the central RFQ. Note If the address master data, such as region code or country code, that is maintained in the connected system doesn't match the address master data in the SAP S/4HANA hub system, the address form in the central RFQ is filled only partially. You can use the following document types to create a central RFQ:  RQ (Internal Sourcing Request) If you select this document type, awarding takes place in an SAP S/4HANA system. Central supplier quotations and follow-on documents must be created manually.   RE (External Sourcing Request) If you select this document type, the central RFQ is sent to SAP Ariba Sourcing, where the suppliers can place their bids, and the awarding takes place in SAP Ariba Sourcing. Central supplier quotations and follow-on documents are created automatically.   You can add attachments and notes to the central RFQs, both on header level and item level.   Add bidders to internal sourcing requests   Publish central RFQs   For internal sourcing requests, create central supplier quotations on behalf of suppliers Note You can create central supplier quotations only from the Manage Central RFQs app. After an RFQ has been published, a Create Central Supplier Quotation button is enabled.    View the business process flow. For more information, refer to the setup guide for 4QN in SAP Best Practices Explorer at https://rapid.sap.com/bp/ under SAP S/4HANA  SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud  Sourcing and Procurement  Central Procurement  Central Procurement with SAP Ariba Sourcing (4QN).With this business process flow, you can view the Ariba sourcing document (sourcing request) along with its status, if Ariba sourcing integration scenario (4QN) is set up.   Maintain Unified Key Mapping Service (UKMS) for a supplier in the hub system. If you maintain UKMS for a supplier, you don't need to replicate the suppliers from the connected systems to the hub systems manually. However, if you do not maintain UKMS, you have to replicate the suppliers from all connected systems to the hub system. For more information on how to manage UKMS for a supplier, refer to the setup guide for 3ZF in SAP Best Practices Explorer at https://rapid.sap.com/bp/ under SAP S/4HANA  SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud  Sourcing and Procurement  Sourcing and Contract Management  Central Sourcing (3ZF) (section Manage Key Mapping for Supplier).   
Business roles: Purchaser| Purchaser - Central Procurement
Purchaser : 
Ensures that demands of materials and services are fulfilled by creating and monitoring purchase orders.

Purchaser - Central Procurement : 
Carries out any centralized purchasing activities across a customer's multi-ERP procurement landscape from a single, central procurement hub, including demand aggregation, centralized sourcing activities and negotiation of central contracts.