Buyer / Procurement Associate
Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center
Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Primarily responsible for processing electronic and handwritten purchase requisitions from departments hospital-wide and several outlying clinics for various products and services, and ensured that the purchase orders had correct pricing and honored the hospital's contracts, while continuously striving to find more cost savings for the company. Duties also included:• Assisting departments with researching products, pursuing quotes from vendors, processing returns and exchanges, expediting shipments, etc. • Working closely with Accounts Payable to ensure resolution when discrepancies arose between purchase orders and the invoices received.• Submitting product information to the corporate office to be established in the company product database to reduce non-catalog ordering.• Assisting with the annual hospital inventory by helping prepare spreadsheets for the physical count, answer questions from departments, assisting in counting as needed, and keying all counts onto the departmental spreadsheets for the final report.