The foreign purchasing unit is responsible for carrying out this process, which we will review below:
1. Implementing sourcing and finding the right supplier
2. Registering the information of suppliers of goods and classifying them according to the type of goods
3. Recording the evaluation results of goods suppliers
4. Categorizing suppliers at the time of inquiry or ordering and grading them
5. Registration of purchase requests in a systematic way and completion of the form by the physical customer
6. Planning the purchase for each order and calculating the approximate date of arrival of the goods
7. Preparing inquiries and registering suppliers’ price offer information
8. Receiving and registering the proforma information (Performa)
9. Preparing a comparison report between the received inquiries
10. Providing the latest status of orders
11. Recording the discrepancies of ordered and received items based on the sample order
12. Creating a database of past purchases and storing essential information about goods, foreign sources, etc.
13. Registration of costs related to each order
14. Analyzing the costs of orders and calculating the total purchase price by separating each item
15. Registration of documents for requests, orders, purchase inquiries and proforma, shipment inquiries, etc.
16. Definition of customer blacklist and related reasons for each customer
17. Registration of shipping information