Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Tasks Include:
- Purchase the highest quality merchandise at the lowest possible price and in correct amounts.
- Prepare purchase orders, solicit bid proposals, and review requisitions for goods and services.
- Research and evaluate suppliers, based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production and distribution capabilities, and the supplier's reputation and history.
- Analyze price proposals, financial reports, and other data and information to determine reasonable prices.
- Monitor and follow applicable laws and regulations.
- Negotiate, renegotiate, and administer contracts with suppliers, vendors, and other representatives.
- Monitor shipments to ensure that goods come in on time, and resolve problems related to undelivered goods.
- Confer with staff, users, and vendors to discuss defective or unacceptable goods or services and determine corrective action.
- Evaluate and monitor contract performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and to determine need for changes.
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Bachelor's Degree
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Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Description
Career Cluster: | Manufacturing |
Purchase machinery, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, or services necessary for the operation of an establishment. Purchase raw or semifinished materials for manufacturing. May negotiate contracts.
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Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Education
Required Level of Education
- Bachelor's Degree = 78.26%
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 8.70%
- Post-Baccalaureate Certificate - awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Baccalaureate degree but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of Master. = 8.70%
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 4.35%
Related Work Experience
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 45.45%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 27.27%
- None = 9.09%
- Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years = 9.09%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 4.55%
- Over 10 years = 4.55%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- None = 27.27%
- Up to and including 1 month = 22.73%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 18.18%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 9.09%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 9.09%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 9.09%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 4.55%
On-the-Job Training
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 27.27%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 18.18%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 18.18%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 18.18%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 9.09%
- None or short demonstration = 4.55%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 4.55%
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Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Purchase the highest quality merchandise at the lowest possible price and in correct amounts.
- Prepare purchase orders, solicit bid proposals, and review requisitions for goods and services.
- Research and evaluate suppliers, based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production and distribution capabilities, and the supplier's reputation and history.
- Analyze price proposals, financial reports, and other data and information to determine reasonable prices.
- Monitor and follow applicable laws and regulations.
- Negotiate, renegotiate, and administer contracts with suppliers, vendors, and other representatives.
- Monitor shipments to ensure that goods come in on time, and resolve problems related to undelivered goods.
- Confer with staff, users, and vendors to discuss defective or unacceptable goods or services and determine corrective action.
- Evaluate and monitor contract performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and to determine need for changes.
- Maintain and review computerized or manual records of purchased items, costs, deliveries, product performance, and inventories.
- Review catalogs, industry periodicals, directories, trade journals, and Internet sites and consult with other department personnel to locate necessary goods and services.
- Study sales records and inventory levels of current stock to develop strategic purchasing programs that facilitate employee access to supplies.
- Interview vendors and visit suppliers' plants and distribution centers to examine and learn about products, services, and prices.
- Arrange the payment of duty and freight charges.
- Hire, train, or supervise purchasing clerks, buyers, and expediters.
- 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.
- Formulate policies and procedures for bid proposals and procurement of goods and services.
- Attend meetings, trade shows, conferences, conventions, and seminars to network with people in other purchasing departments.
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Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Calculators or accessories (10-key calculators)
- Adding machines
- Desktop computers
- Facsimile machines (Fax machines)
- Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
- Special purpose telephones (Multi-line telephone systems)
- Personal computers
- Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers (Personal digital assistants PDA)
- Photocopiers (Photocopying equipment)
- Scanners
- Tablet computers
Technologies Include:
- Accounting software
- Accounting software
- National Job Cost software
- Choice Job Cost
- Cost accounting software
- CPR International GeneralCOST Estimator
- Intuit QuickBooks software
- Analytical or scientific software
- QSM SLIM
- Construction Management Software ProEst
- Resources Calculations Incorporated SoftCost
- WinEstimator WinEst
- Charting software
- Microsoft Office Visio
- Data base reporting software
- Business Objects Crystal Reports
- Data base reporting software
- Software AG software
- Data base user interface and query software
- Microsoft Access
- Electronic mail software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Enterprise resource planning ERP system software
- Microsoft Great Plains software
- Infor ERP SyteLine
- SAP software
- Financial analysis software
- Cost estimation software
- CPR International Visual Estimator
- Financial analysis software
- IBM Costimater
- Softstar Costar COCOMO II
- Internet browser software
- Web browser software
- Inventory management software
- Inventory management system software
- Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
- Presentation software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Project management software
- Microsoft Project
- Assured Software JPP
- Sage Master Builder
- Galorath SEER-SEM
- Dexter + Cheney Spectrum Construction Software
- Xactware Xactimate
- Spreadsheet software
- Apple AppleWorks
- IBM Lotus 1-2-3
- Microsoft Excel
- Corel QuattroPro
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
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Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Additional Resources
Further information about education training employment and certification for purchasing careers is available from:
American Purchasing Society
North Island Center
Suite 203
8 East Galena Blvd.
Aurora, IL 60506
http://www.american-purchasing.com
Institute for Supply Management
P.O. Box 22160
Tempe, AZ 85285-2160
http://www.napm.org
National Institute of Governmental Purchasing Inc.
151 Spring St.
Suite 300
Herndon, VA 20170-5223
http://www.nigp.org
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Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
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78.25 | English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
75.00 | Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
71.50 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
70.50 | Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
67.50 | Economics and Accounting | Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data. |
60.75 | Law and Government | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. |
60.25 | Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. |
55.50 | Administrative | Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology. |
53.50 | Transportation | Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits. |
53.50 | Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
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Skills
% | Subject | Description |
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75.00 | Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
75.00 | Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. |
72.00 | Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
72.00 | Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
72.00 | Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
68.75 | Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
68.75 | Management of Financial Resources | Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. |
68.75 | Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
68.75 | Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
68.75 | Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
68.75 | Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
68.75 | Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. |
62.50 | Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
59.50 | Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
56.25 | Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. |
53.00 | Management of Material Resources | Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. |
53.00 | Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. |
53.00 | Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. |
50.00 | Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
50.00 | Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. |
50.00 | Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. |
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Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
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78.00 | Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
75.00 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
72.00 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
72.00 | Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
68.75 | Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
68.75 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
68.75 | Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
68.75 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
68.75 | Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
68.75 | Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
65.50 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
53.00 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
53.00 | Mathematical Reasoning | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. |
53.00 | Number Facility | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. |
50.00 | Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). |
50.00 | Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. |
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Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
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87.00 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
84.00 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
83.00 | Working with Computers | Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
81.50 | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships | Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
81.50 | Communicating with People Outside the Organization | Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
81.50 | Analyzing Data or Information | Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
81.50 | Making Decisions and Solving Problems | Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
81.50 | Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others | Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
76.00 | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work | Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
73.75 | Documenting/Recording Information | Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
71.75 | Processing Information | Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
70.75 | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards | Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
69.50 | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge | Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
68.50 | Thinking Creatively | Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
67.00 | Monitoring and Controlling Resources | Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money. |
66.75 | Developing and Building Teams | Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. |
66.25 | Developing Objectives and Strategies | Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them. |
65.25 | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events | Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
65.25 | Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates | Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance. |
63.75 | Coaching and Developing Others | Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills. |
62.50 | Performing Administrative Activities | Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork. |
62.00 | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People | Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
61.25 | Scheduling Work and Activities | Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
61.25 | Training and Teaching Others | Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
60.25 | Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others | Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |
60.25 | Providing Consultation and Advice to Others | Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics. |
59.75 | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings | Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
58.75 | Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others | Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |
56.50 | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information | Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
50.00 | Selling or Influencing Others | Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions. |
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Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
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97.75 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
89.25 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
88.00 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
85.75 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
84.75 | Analytical Thinking | Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
83.75 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
83.75 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
82.50 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
81.50 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
79.25 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
78.25 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
71.75 | Leadership | Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
68.50 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
60.75 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
56.50 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
54.50 | Social Orientation | Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
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Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
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66.67 | Working Conditions | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions. |
61.17 | Relationships | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service. |
61.17 | Support | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
61.17 | Independence | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy. |
50.00 | Achievement | Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement. |
50.00 | Recognition | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status. |
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Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
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99.20 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
99.20 | Electronic Mail | How often do you use electronic mail in this job? |
95.60 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
90.00 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
88.60 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
87.80 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
87.20 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
87.20 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
87.00 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
87.00 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
86.40 | Spend Time Sitting | How much does this job require sitting? |
85.40 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
84.40 | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? |
79.20 | Letters and Memos | How often does the job require written letters and memos? |
77.20 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
76.60 | Deal With External Customers | How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? |
71.40 | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? |
69.60 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
68.20 | Consequence of Error | How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? |
67.00 | Frequency of Conflict Situations | How often are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job? |
64.40 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
63.40 | Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People | How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements? |
60.00 | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety | How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? |
53.00 | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable | How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? |
53.00 | Degree of Automation | How automated is the job? |
51.80 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
49.60 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
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Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
- Examples
- Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include real estate brokers, sales managers, database administrators, graphic designers, conservation scientists, art directors, and cost estimators.
- Education
- Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
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Related Occupations
Related Occupations
The related occupations here have similar general capabilities and interests; career explorers may also be interested in the related occupations:- Procurement Clerks
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- Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
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- Logisticians
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- Supply Chain Managers
- Sales Managers
- Cost Estimators
- Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel
- Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
- Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
- Order Clerks
- First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
- Industrial Production Managers
- Customs Brokers
- Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks
- Financial and Investment Analysts
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Military Training
The following military job classifications are available for this occupation:
- Procurement and Production
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Proficiency Ratings
These proficiencies are scored on a scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being not
important to the job and 5 being extremely important to the job.
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Titles
- Area Field Person
- Area Field Worker
- Buyer
- Contract Analyst
- Contract Specialist
- Contractor Buyer
- Contracts Administrator
- Contracts Manager
- Equipment, Supplies, and Tools Purchasing Agent
- Food Broker
- Fuel Agent
- Fuel Buyer
- General Purchasing Agent
- Import Coordinator
- Jobber
- Journeyman
- Leaser
- Log Buyer
- Lumber Buyer
- Media Buyer
- Merchandiser
- Ore Buyer
- Outside Property Agent
- Piece Jobber
- Plant Buyer
- Price Analyst
- Print Buyer
- Procurement Agent
- Procurement Engineer
- Procurement Specialist
- Pulpwood Buyer
- Pulpwood Contractor
- Purchaser
- Purchasing Administrator
- Purchasing Agent
- Purchasing Assistant
- Purchasing Coordinator
- Purchasing Manager
- Purchasing Specialist
- Radio Time Buyer
- Railroad Purchasing Agent
- Subcontract Administrator
- Timber Buyer
- Tools, Supplies, and Equipment Purchasing Agent
- Traveling Buyer
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Related Schools
- Hampton University
- Old Dominion University
- Strayer University-Virginia
- University of Management and Technology
- University of the Potomac-VA Campus
- University of Virginia-Main Campus
- Virginia Union University
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