Will AI Replace Procurement Clerks?

Track the status of requisitions, contracts, and orders.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Perform buying duties when necessary.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prepare purchase orders and send copies to suppliers and to departments originating requests.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Calculate costs of orders, and charge or forward invoices to appropriate accounts.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Compare prices, specifications, and delivery dates to determine the best bid among potential suppliers.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Approve and pay bills.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Maintain knowledge of all organizational and governmental rules affecting purchases, and provide information about these rules to organization staff members and to vendors.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Determine if inventory quantities are sufficient for needs, ordering more materials when necessary.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Check shipments when they arrive to ensure that orders have been filled correctly and that goods meet specifications.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Contact suppliers to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and other problems.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prepare, maintain, and review purchasing files, reports and price lists.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Review requisition orders to verify accuracy, terminology, and specifications.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Respond to customer and supplier inquiries about order status, changes, or cancellations.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Monitor in-house inventory movement and complete inventory transfer forms for bookkeeping purposes.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Compare suppliers' bills with bids and purchase orders to verify accuracy.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Locate suppliers, using sources such as catalogs and the internet, and interview them to gather information about products to be ordered.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Monitor contractor performance, recommending contract modifications when necessary.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prepare invitation-of-bid forms, and mail forms to supplier firms or distribute forms for public posting.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Train and supervise subordinates and other staff.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.