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O*NET detailed work activityOrder materials, supplies, or equipment
AI-assistHandle the admin
72 jobs75 tasks
AI can prep the paperwork, extract details from documents and make checklists. Approving, paying and verifying stay with you.
Part of Purchase goods or services, under the O*NET work activity group Monitoring and Controlling Resources. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (4 AI-ready, 66 AI-assist, 5 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Perform buying duties when necessary.
- Order or requisition food or other supplies needed to ensure efficient operation.
- Shop for or order food and kitchen supplies and equipment.
- Determine cash requirements for windows and order all necessary currency, coins, or chips.
- Perform general office duties, such as ordering supplies, maintaining records management database systems, and performing basic bookkeeping work.
- Requisition parts or materials.
- Order bicycle parts.
- Carry out special services for customers, such as ordering bank cards and checks.
- Estimate, order, pick up, deliver, and install materials and supplies needed to maintain equipment in good working condition.
- Requisition materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts.
- Order supplies, including replacement parts, for timing instruments.
- Order replacement springs, sections, or slats.
- Monitor and order supplies or food items, and restock as necessary to maintain inventory.
- Maintain stock of supplies, and requisition any needed items.
- Inventory and requisition or order supplies, parts, materials, and equipment.
- Order flowers for guests.
- Requisition or acquire needed materials for special effects, including wigs, beards, and special cosmetics.
- Order parts, supplies, or equipment from catalogs or suppliers.
- Research catalogs or repair part lists to locate sources for repair parts, requisitioning parts and recording their receipt.
- Requisition materials, supplies, equipment parts, or repair services.
- Requisition necessary supplies, equipment, or services.
- Order parts or supplies for orthotic or prosthetic devices.
- Requisition and maintain inventories of materials or supplies necessary to meet production demands.
- Requisition necessary supplies, equipment, or services.
- Order a supply of cash to meet daily needs.
- Requisition merchandise from supplier, based on available space, merchandise on hand, customer demand, or advertised specials.
- Order supplies.
- Requisition food supplies, kitchen equipment, and appliances, based on estimates of future needs.
- Requisition supplies and equipment necessary for workers to facilitate recreational or entertainment activities, such as safety harnesses, flash lights, or first aid kits.
- Purchase or requisition supplies and equipment needed to ensure quality and timely delivery of services.
- Order, display, and maintain supplies.
- Maintain supplies of tools, equipment, and materials, and order additional supplies as needed.
- Meet with sales representatives to negotiate prices or order supplies.
- Order replacement parts for malfunctioning equipment.
- Order or requisition liquors and supplies.
- Perform various clerical or administrative functions, such as ordering and maintaining an inventory of supplies.
- Order new parts to maintain inventory.
- Provide services to customers, such as order placement or account information.
- Order replacements for tires or tubes.
- Order parts needed for machine repairs.
- Place orders for laboratory equipment and supplies.
- Order replacement parts.
- Order supplies for facilities.
- Order or receive supplies or equipment.
- Order and take delivery of supplies.
- Order and dispense supplies.
- Order tooling for jobs.
- Order materials or supplies, such as keys, uniforms, and badges.
- Purchase, rent, or requisition costumes or other wardrobe necessities.
- Order, unload, and store feed and supplies.
- Place orders, such as for equipment, supplies, or catering for meetings.
- Order retail items and other supplies for office use.
- Order supplies or equipment and issue them to personnel.
- Order or requisition supplies and equipment for tables and serving stations.
- Acquire books, pamphlets, periodicals, audio-visual materials, and other library supplies by checking prices, figuring costs, and preparing appropriate order forms and facilitating the ordering process by providing such information to others.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Fill customer orders from stock, and place orders when requested items are out of stock.
- Maintain parts inventories and order any additional parts needed for repairs.
- Order, receive, or stock supplies or retail products.
- Select and acquire metals and gems for designs.
- Record parts or materials used and order or requisition new parts or materials, as necessary.
- Requisition and store shipping materials and supplies to maintain inventory of stock.
- Inventory and requisition machine parts, equipment, and other supplies so that stock can be maintained and replenished.
- Maintain financial records, order merchandise, or prepare accounts.
- Estimate requirements and order or requisition meat supplies to maintain inventories.
- Monitor inventory levels on a regular basis, ordering or requesting additional supplies, as necessary.
- Research, order, and maintain parts inventory for services and repairs.
- Perform general administrative tasks, such as answering telephones, scheduling appointments, and ordering supplies or equipment.
- Inventory products and order new supplies.
- Estimate expected food consumption, requisition or purchase supplies, or procure food from storage.
- Inventory equipment and supplies, ordering parts and tools as necessary.
- Maintain inventories of spare parts for all equipment, requisitioning parts as necessary.
- Investigate complaints or conflicts related to the alteration of public waters, gathering information, recommending alternatives, informing participants of progress, and preparing draft orders.
- Order supplies and stock them on shelves.
- Forward orders to manufacturers.
- Take orders for merchandise or materials and send them to the proper departments to be filled.