Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Business and Financial OperationsAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products with an AI automation risk score of 30%. Analysis includes 19 core tasks.
Why This Score?
- Work environment requires human interaction and presence
Responsibilities and Abilities
Key Responsibilities
- Getting Information
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
- Working with Computers
- Analyzing Data or Information
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
Required Abilities
- Written Comprehension
- Oral Comprehension
- Oral Expression
- Written Expression
- Problem Sensitivity
Key Tasks
Write and review product specifications, maintaining a working technical knowledge of the goods or services to be purchased.
Monitor changes affecting supply and demand, tracking market conditions, price trends, or futures markets.
Interview vendors and visit suppliers' plants and distribution centers to examine and learn about products, services, and prices.
Monitor and follow applicable laws and regulations.
Evaluate and monitor contract performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and to determine need for changes.
Research and evaluate suppliers, based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production and distribution capabilities, and the supplier's reputation and history.
Hire, train, or supervise purchasing clerks, buyers, and expediters.
Study sales records and inventory levels of current stock to develop strategic purchasing programs that facilitate employee access to supplies.
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Upskilling Courses
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Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data