Job Description
● Perform buying duties when necessary.
● Prepare purchase orders and send copies to suppliers and to departments originating requests.
● Prepare, maintain, and review purchasing files, reports and price lists.
● Review requisition orders to verify accuracy, terminology, and specifications.
● 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.
● Contact suppliers to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and other problems.
● Track the status of requisitions, contracts, and orders.