Role
Buyer or purchasing agent
Decides what to order and from whom.
Planned
Where this role appears
15 of the studied industries list a matching role.
- Grocery and supermarkets
- Apparel and footwear retail
- Specialty retail (books, toys, sporting goods, jewelry, pets, crafts)
- Home improvement and hardware stores
- Pharmacies and drug stores
- Liquor, beer and wine stores
- Contract catering and food-service management
- Wholesale food and grocery
- Wholesale electronics, office and technology distribution
- Food production and processing
- Aerospace and defense
- Metals, mining and raw materials
- Agriculture, farming and cooperatives
- Fishing, forestry and aquaculture
- Travel retail and duty-free
Planned catalog items that serve this role
- Special order (out of stock) TKT-0031
- Customer purchase history CRM-0007
- Supplier records (cross-ref) CRM-0031
- Paid-out CASH-0017
- Purchase UoM vs sale UoM INV-0026
- Product supplier links INV-0031
- Product reorder point & quantity INV-0037
- Reorder suggestions INV-0055
- Supplier record INV-0077
- Supplier price list INV-0078
Permissions themes
- Give this role only the rights its job needs.
- Sensitive actions (voids, discounts, refunds, price edits) are normally approved by someone else.
- Every sensitive action should leave an audit entry.
All of this is planned. No app is released. See roles and permissions.