@NateS i think the issues your running into are because of the buyer/authorized user connection. Who is the current default buyer? make your account an authorized user under that name to test this out. once you reload the suggestions you should start seeing reqs come in.
…a little tip i learned from others was to make the buyer a general title, like the company name or employee level like supervisor/manager/owner/etc. This way you just modify the authorized users under that generic name and dont have to adjust each employees authorized users if someone leaves the company.
similar to others in here, we setup our requisitions and purchase orders so that the users can do all the grunt work and if done correctly, the purchaser just needed to combine them into a PO from suggestions and send it on its way.
my favorite thing about reqs is that the part number does not need to exist in your system. whatever the user finds online can be the part number, we instructed them to fill the description field with the url of the product, and then we forced them to select a part class to the best of their ability. (that was a huge push from the acct team but i could understand their resonsings after a few runs)
the also need to enter in qty, price, and the supplier and the supplier is the only annoyance as they need to exist in the system prior to the req.
unlike many, we decided to skip the approval process as we were a small company. and the reqs werent coming from just anyone. only managers could submit reqs and we made it so they went straight to approved after submitting.