Job Description
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Identify, research, and evaluate suppliers that meet the organization's standards of price, quality, timing, and reliability of supply.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
• Recognize and evaluate sales, promotional campaigns, and other opportunities to secure reduced prices.
• Assess supplier’s products to ensure they that they comply with specifications and meet the organization’s quality standards.
• Analyze and evaluate supplier bids, tenders, proposals, or quotations.
• Negotiate prices and delivery conditions.
• Commit to purchases (within established limits of authority) with terms that are in the organization’s best interest.
• Interpret inventory requests, production schedules, purchase requisitions, orders, and other documents to coordinate purchasing activities with the organization’s current and anticipated demand for goods and materials.
• Monitor the quality and timeliness of materials and goods supplied.
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