Local Purchasing Expert

Job Description

- Classify purchase orders and their items and send copies to suppliers and to department originating request. - Respond to customer and supplier inquiries about order status, changes or cancellation. - Contact suppliers in order to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortage, missed or late deliveries and other problem. - Review requisition orders in order to verify accuracy, terminology and specification. - Prepare, maintain and review purchasing files, report and quotations. - Comparing prices, specification and delivery dates in order to determine the best one among potential suppliers. - Track the status of requisition, contract and orders. - Determine if inventory quantities are sufficient for needs, ordering more materials when necessary. - Calculate costs of orders and charge or forward invoices to appropriate accounts.