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Purchasing Specialist Reviews
What is it like working as a Purchasing Specialist?
May 2017
Flexibly stressed.
Purchasing Specialist in Rock Hill:
Pros: Flexibility to make decisions you think are best and try new ideas in addition to the opportunity to interact with many different industries as a learning experience and networking opportunity.
Cons: Lack of authority to enforce policies within other departments to streamline processes regarding my own work.
September 2016
Purchasing Specialist:
Pros: Working with supplier and meeting targets and deadlines.
Getting praised and compensated for work done - Doing a good job all of the time and being kept busy and mixing with people.
Cons: Boring work and not being busy.
June 2016
Be cautious of the blame.
Purchasing Specialist:
Purchasers are constantly in a battle between the company owners who want lower stocking levels, and the sales team who want everything on the shelf at all times. Make sure your decisions are backed by sound reason that can be proven later. Ask the company if they have written policies in place regarding orders, returns, inventory discrepancies, shipping/receiving, and how they enforce the policies. A challenging job that is made much easier by using technology to automate a lot of the menial daily tasks.
December 2014
Stress level.
Purchasing Specialist:
Pros: Can learn from the experiences and multiple situations.
Cons: It is a bit exaggerate in few moment, deal with multi critical situation and major impact.
September 2014
When It's Good It's Great.
Purchasing Specialist:
Pros: I really enjoy the people I work with. We are a close team that count on each other for assistance an back up. I like putting together master lists to help determine and coordinate deliveries of our fixtures. I enjoy providing and collecting all available information to best determine our course of action in allocating inventory.
Cons: The things I like the least are mostly outside and uncontrollable factors. I do not enjoy the need it done yesterday aspect of my job. Retail is a fickle industry. I don't know how much job growth is available.
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