Description
Duties include:
- Liaises with key company employees to determine their product and service needs
- Monitor changing market trends and product availability to purchase the highest quality products and materials at the lowest possible price without sacrificing delivery times
- Evaluate suppliers based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production and distribution capabilities, as well as the supplier's reputation and history. Identify and research potential new suppliers
- Research new products and services.
- Negotiate, or renegotiate, and administer contracts with suppliers, vendors, and other representatives.
- Prepare purchase orders by verifying specifications and price; obtaining recommendations from suppliers for substitute items; obtaining approval from requisitioning department.
- Authorize payment for purchases by forwarding receiving documentation.
- Monitor shipments to ensure that goods come in on time, verifies receipt of items by comparing items received to items ordered; resolves shipments in error with suppliers.
- Confer with staff, users, and vendors to discuss defective or unacceptable goods or services and determine corrective action.
- Maintain and review computerized or manual records of items purchased, costs, delivery, product performance, and inventories/supply base.
- Write and review product specifications, maintaining a working technical knowledge of the goods or services to be purchased.
- Assess total costs of company purchases
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