Produce buyer vs grain origination specialist

Differences between produce buyer and grain origination specialist duties and responsibilities

Produce buyer example responsibilities.

• Analyze and manage goals for increasing sales, profit margins, turns, fill rate and manage logistics.
• Manage open-to-buy to ensure continual flow of merchandise to stores and warehouses with careful attention to advertise events and promotions.
• Coordinate with transportation department to ensure efficiency in logistics of transporting employees and products using company vehicles.
• Manage open-to-buy to ensure continual flow of merchandise to stores and warehouses with careful attention to advertise events and promotions.
• Track all incoming requests for quote (RFQ) from customers, sales managers, and outside sales representatives.
• Review purchase requisitions and engineering specifications to determine which suppliers to RFQ.
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Grain origination specialist example responsibilities.

• Manage margins for purchase commodities base on export market and barge freight.
• Analyze and support development and execution of underwriting, automation and operational strategies to efficiently and effectively manage the portfolio.
• Prioritize and expedite timely shipment estimates, including working with the advance dollar process; finalize commodities as appropriate.
• Collaborate with team members to fully understand financial conditions and to provide financial solutions to expedite loan origination and funding.
• Establish overall infrastructure for off-shore development including communication plan, QA, testing and packaging, functional and detail design standards
• Review documentation to determine if RESPA disclosure triggers are enabled.