Purchasing Assistant
Current• Monitoring Capital Expenditure projects from start to finish, engaging with facilities, vendors, and management to ensure that projects are finished in a way that meets the facilities’ needs.• Maintaining, adjusting, and making improvements to company ERP software.• Engaging in buying, selling, and distributing materials, forms, equipment, machinery, and any other supplies, goods and services. • Reviewing, monitoring, tracking and logging Capital Expenditures. • Ensuring compliance with regulations and procedures, analyzing and comparing bids.• Creating and reviewing purchase orders and contracts for conformance to company policy and coordinating with other departments and committees as appropriate.• Comparing prices, specifications and delivery dates in order to determine the best bid among potential suppliers.• Contacting suppliers in order to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and other problems.• Locating suppliers using sources such as catalogs and the internet and interviewing them to gather information.• Communicating with facilities regarding purchasing requests, purchase orders, vendor issues, etc.
