def METHOD_NAME(
        consumer: RequestDBConsumer,
        processor: ResponseDBProcessor,
        router: RequestRouter,
        session_manager: SessionManager,
        fluentd_client: FluentdClient,
) -> Optional[requests.Response]:
    """
    Process SAS requests
    """
    with session_manager.session_scope() as session:
        requests_map = consumer.get_pending_requests(session)
        requests_type = next(iter(requests_map))
        requests_list = requests_map[requests_type]
        if not requests_list:
            logger.debug(f"Received no {requests_type} requests.")
            return None
        no_of_requests = len(requests_list)
        logger.info(
            f'Processing {no_of_requests} {requests_type} requests',
        )
        bulked_sas_requests = merge_requests(requests_map)
        _log_requests_map(requests_map, fluentd_client)
        try:
            sas_response = router.post_to_sas(bulked_sas_requests)
            logger.info(
                f"Sent {bulked_sas_requests} to SAS and got the following response: {sas_response.content}",
            )
        except RequestRouterError as e:
            logging.error(f"Error posting request to SAS: {e}")
            return None
        logger.info(f"About to process responses {sas_response=}")
        processor.process_response(requests_list, sas_response, session)
        session.commit()
        return sas_response