Purchasing

L to R - Peter Johnson and Brian MacDonald


Peter Johnson

  • Scheduled inventory reviews with stock orders placed accordingly
  • Coordinate special order items with stock orders
  • Place no charge purchase orders to recoup promotion and labor costs
  • Expedite problem items - allocate items as received
  • Determine shipping information and communicate to sales
  • Identify and disposition slow/non moving items
  • Implementation of list/cost changes in JDE
  • Maintain JDE price matrix
  • JDE item master and branch maintenance
  • Vendor invoice discrepancies
  • Custom “unit sales” reports
  • Bi-weekly Inventory analysis report
  • Publish vendor rating report monthly
  • Weekly Taco “hot lists”
  • Publish fill rate information daily


Brian MacDonald

  • Scheduled inventory reviews with stock orders placed accordingly
  • Coordinate special order items with stock orders
  • Place no charge purchase orders to recoup promotion and labor costs
  • Expedite problem items - allocate items as received
  • Determine shipping information and communicate to sales
  • Administrate SEP program
  • Handle Skidmore stock orders
  • Maintain “Stock Inquiry” page on the intranet
  • Receiving discrepancies
  • Reconcile open purchase orders with vendor printouts
  • Weekly Enerzone and Super Stor inventory status reports


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