A hospital industry is a complex hub and essentially need a focused as well as an organised purchase manager.Thus, his functions,roles and responsibilities have to be defined one.

1. PURCHASING MANAGER
A Purchasing Manager is an employee within an
organization who is responsible at some level for
buying or approving the acquisition of goods and
services needed by the company.
It is he purchase manager who interacts
frequently with the suppliers and other channel
members and their behavior can and does affect
how suppliers and others view the firm.

2. FUNTIONS OF PURCHASE
MANAGER
 Coordination with user department to identify the
purchase need.
 Identification of potential suppliers.
 Negotiation with the suppliers.
 Conduct of market studies.

3. ROLES OF PURCHASE
MANAGER
 To ensure the availability of proper quantity and quality of
material.
 To procure material at reasonable cost.
 To study possible substitution of raw material.
 To identify and develop new vendors and maintain a
good relationship with existing vendors.
 To develop good procedures and systems for production
department.

4. RESPONSIBILITES OF PURCHASE
MANAGER
 Purchasing Managers wear several different hats.
Typically, the larger the company the more specialized
they are in their job responsibilities an the smaller the
company the more all-encompassing their duties.
The 4 basic responsibilities are :
 Management Duties
 Procurement duties
 Contractual duties
 Analytical duties

5. MANAGEMENT DUTIES
 Management of resources
 Decisions related to scheduling and meetings of
suppliers and vendors.
 Maintaining stock in surplus.
 Monitoring and evaluation of different department.

6. PROCUREMENT DUTIES
 Ensuring that all material and stocks are available and
ready in timely manner.
 Preparing a list of materials and coordinate with
vendors.
 Maintain an optimum supply of material in firm.

7. CONTACTUAL DUTIES
While dealing with vendors purchase manager must know
how to:
 Negotiate,
 Prepare and
 Execute contracts.

8. ANALYTICAL DUTIES
 Focus on changing demand of the people and to bring
about upgrades, advancements based on data
analyzed.
 Being familiar with the market trends.
 Creating better processes to become more efficient.

9. PURCHASE MANAGER IN A
HOSPITAL INDUSTRY
 Taking in account of all the 6Rs:
 Right time
 Right quality
 Right quantity
 Right place
 Right price
 Purchasing inventories and drugs with all matched
standards (NABH,JCI etc.)