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Purchasing and Inventory Clerks

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  • Job description
  • Advancement and mobility
  • Hourly wage
  • Job prospects for 2021-2025
  • Sectors of activity
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

Job description

These individuals process transactions and verify equipment and inventory. They work in:

  • Businesses
  • Plants
  • Government agencies

Environment

  • Controlled ambient temperature

Main tasks

Purchasing Clerks

  • Check the accuracy of the requests and quantity in stock.
  • Calculate the cost of orders, request payment, or forward invoices to the relevant departments.
  • Find supply sources, get prices, and fill out purchase orders.
  • Establish delivery schedules with suppliers.
  • Solve problems (missing items, forgotten deliveries, etc.).
  • Prepare and maintain purchase files, reports, and price lists.

Inventory Control Clerk

  • Maintain, monitor, adjust, and compile inventory reports.
  • Prepare orders to replenish available inventory.
  • Ensure turnover of items, list expired items and dispose of them.
  • Enter the necessary data for the preparation of the production schedule.
  • Reconcile computer-calculated inventories with the manual count of inventory items.

Advancement and mobility

  • The duties of purchasing and inventory clerks may overlap in some establishments.
  • Additional experience or training may lead to supervisory or senior positions.

Hourly wage

The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2019 to 2021.
Minimum
$14.25
Median
$19.00
Maximum
$26.44

Job prospects for 2021-2025

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Job prospects for 2021-2025

Job prospects

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Good

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available

Total jobs for 2020

All of Québec

6,000

All of Québec

na

Gender distribution

All of Québec

Not available.
48.9% Female
51.1% Male

Not available.
  • 48.9% Female
  • 51.1% Male

Job types

All of Québec

Not available.
Full time
Part time

Not available.
  • Full time
  • Part time

Yearly wage on 2015

All of Québec

$43,000

All of Québec

Other characteristics

All of Québec

  • None

All of Québec

  • None

Sectors of activity

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Retail Trade
    NAICS 44, 45
    27% of jobs
  2. Wholesale Trade
    NAICS 41
    17% of jobs
  3. Business, building and other support services
    NAICS 55, 56
    10% of jobs
  4. Transportation and Warehousing
    NAICS 48, 49
    4% of jobs
  5. Public Administration
    NAICS 91
    4% of jobs
  6. Others
    38% of jobs

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Retail Trade
    NAICS 44, 45
    27% of jobs
  2. Wholesale Trade
    NAICS 41
    17% of jobs
  3. Business, building and other support services
    NAICS 55, 56
    10% of jobs
  4. Transportation and Warehousing
    NAICS 48, 49
    4% of jobs
  5. Public Administration
    NAICS 91
    4% of jobs
  6. Others
    38% of jobs