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.
