WorkMate Purchasing Module

The retail buyer has the responsibility for understanding emerging trends, selecting merchandise and negotiating with the vendor. The right blend of reliable information, market knowledge and experience enables the buyer to arrive at a sound buying decision. While buyers can rely on their market knowledge and intuition, they can’t always depend on having reliable information at hand, especially at the time when it will be most beneficial.

The Purchasing module of Buyer’s WorkMate supports various methods and opportunities for the evaluation and selection of vendor merchandise both in concert with and independent of the assortment plan. The buyer also gets the opportunity to re-model the expected performance of the vendor specific merchandise across selected store groups using the latest performance data. Additionally, the full capabilities of the Buyer’s WorkMate Purchasing module are available to the buyer as a “standalone” laptop-based application or when they are connected to their corporate network.

Once an order or group of orders is in balance, finalized and authorized, the purchase order can be uploaded to the transaction processing system (remote or on-line), faxed or electronically transmitted to vendor (EDI).