Elements and Performance Criteria
- Understand purchasing and own requirements
- Make purchases
- Receive purchase specifications from relevant personnel and clarify as required
- Select purchasing methods most appropriate to particular purchases within limits of own role
- Obtain approvals for purchases as required
- Obtain quotations from suppliers as required
- Select suppliers, place orders and make purchases
- Receive purchases
- Receive goods or make arrangements to receive services
- Advise relevant personnel of receipt of purchase
- Ensure goods received are checked for compliance with specifications
- Take action to resolve non-compliance with specifications
- Facilitate registration of new assets
- File and store purchase records