Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop and document strategies for international purchasing
- Implement international purchasing strategies
- Communicate international purchasing strategies to relevant personnel and stakeholders
- Provide support to stakeholders to implement international purchasing strategies
- Monitor implementation of international purchasing strategies within the organisation
- Identify and address problems and issues arising from implementation of international purchasing strategies
- Undertake more complex international purchasing
- Ensure that export markets and cultural considerations having a potential impact on international purchasing are researched and appropriate markets chosen
- Research and apply relevant international legal requirements on sale of goods and Australian regulatory controls applicable to imports into Australia
- Apply relevant INCOTERMS and trade terms to international purchasing
- Draft exception clauses to business conditions
- Clarify and resolve any discrepancies to the satisfaction of all parties
- Prepare draft contract and access legal expertise to check legality of contract agreement
- Determine payment strategies
- Arrange barter or countertrade
- Research and analyse strategic implications of arranging specific barter or countertrade
- Determine suppliers willing to engage in international barter or countertrade
- Negotiate and reach agreement with partners on commercial conditions for proposed barter or countertrade
- Prepare draft contract and access legal expertise to check legality of contract agreement
- Approve and issue contracts
- Investigate and resolve any disagreements and discrepancies to the satisfaction of all parties
- Determine logistics strategies
- Determine requirements for pre-shipment inspection and arrange inspection
- Research and analyse shipping facilities and other transport risks
- Research and analyse regulatory compliance requirements for importation into Australia
- Develop logistics strategies for the organisation taking into account appropriate transport, insurance and regulatory compliance requirements
- Gain approval from relevant personnel for implementation of logistics strategies
- Evaluate international purchasing strategies and implement identified improvements
- Review implementation of international purchasing strategies
- Identify improvements to international purchasing strategies from the review process
- Gain approval to implement improvements to international purchasing strategies
- Communicate changes to relevant stakeholders and identify support provided to implement improvements
- Monitor and review implementation of changes to determine effectiveness of improvements