Elements and Performance Criteria
- Manage ongoing performance of purchasing and procurement strategies.
- Develop policy and procedures for management of purchasing and procurement activities.
- Develop formal policy and procedures for processing purchases, including methods for requesting and receiving supply.
- Establish benchmarks for measuring efficiency of purchase systems and suppliers of purchased products and services.
- Develop communication and data exchange systems with product and service suppliers.
- Devise strategies to maximise efficiency and effectiveness of input processes to the business.
- Evaluate existing purchasing systems.
- Analyse effectiveness of assets and resource management within the purchasing system.
- Set value adding determinants for each purchase.
- Investigate inconsistencies or non-conformance of purchasing with legal agreements.
- Investigate and resolve inconsistencies or non-conformance of purchasing and supply arrangements with formal policy and procedures and relevant legislation.