Saludos

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Note added at 21 horas (2010-04-14 12:46:18 GMT)
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Pues entonces, creo que tu opción estaría bien: "procurement/purchasing desk/department".






PROCUREMENT PROCESS

Every business entity has got a procurement department or a executive who
handles all purchases depending upon the size of the organisation .Big
organisations have multilocational purchase unit or in some case purchases
are made from central unit .

Purchase deptt plays a very critical and crucial role in smooth functioning of
organisation
The Head of Purchase deptt is called Chief Procurement Officer(CPO) .Now
days CPO has considerable say in any company policy.



Purchase deptt primary role is to get material at right cost , from right
buyer , of right quality and in right time .

Major role of purchase are following



Raw Material , Ingredients , fuel buying

Service contract

Vendor Development

Vendor Analysis

Value Analysis

Annual Contract

Capital Purchases .

Maintenance and Repair contracts

Payments to vendor .

Inventory control

Negotiations & long term contracts

Scrap management

Getting licenses for storages etc.ie liasioning with govt depts

Imports

Maintaining and Updating Vendor Master.

Follow up with vendors for Delivery

Warehousing

Imports

Services contract

Legal and laws of contract

Purchase Orders and Other Documents ( Quotation , PO , Indent

ERP -Data Analysis



Procurement process starts from requirement from user dept to purchase
dept through Indents ( purchase order requisition) followed by purchase dept
inviting quotation from suppliers and selecting the best offer considering
various aspects such as vendors capacity , quality , delivery schedule ,price
and other factors .Purchase orders are released against requisitions . Material
is delivered on specified date and location by the vendors.