Purchasing and Supply Logistics Clerks

Key Tasks

• •Requisitioning supplies from stock and sending orders to production departments and other firms
• •Confirming completion of orders and compliance with details specified, signing tally sheets and attaching to checked items
• •Receiving and checking purchase requests against inventory records and stock on hand
• •Examining orders and compiling data for production schedules
• •Checking inventories and preparing delivery schedules
• •Examining containers to ensure that they are filled, and recording quantities
• •Investigating and identifying supply sources and preparing and processing purchase orders
• •Providing price and other information about goods to prospective customers
• •Counting incoming stock and reconciling it with requisitions, and updating inventory and stock location records
• •Establishing and coordinating the operating procedures for receiving, handling, storing and shipping goods

Employment Projections to 2034