"purchasing officer" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a person whose job is to purchase goods for a company or organization. For example, "John has been promoted to purchasing officer at ABC Corporation."
Vladimir Kuznetsov, a former Russian diplomat who once headed the United Nations budget oversight committee, was convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan of having conspired with a United Nations purchasing officer to obtain $300,000 in illicit payments from foreign companies seeking contracts.
So does Jim Nichols, a municipal purchasing officer from Saginaw, Mich.
Rick Hughes, chief purchasing officer at P.& G., says suppliers now compete in all kinds of new ways because of the exchanges' sophistication.
My request to the purchasing officer for the library to acquire a copy was met with a yes, but the book would be in paperback only and there would be a 30p booking fee.
The story goes that a Marine purchasing officer bought the horse from a Korean boy who needed money to buy his sister an artificial leg, according to a 1955 book, "Reckless: Pride of the Marines," by Marine Lt. Col. Andrew Geer, a Marine commander who served with Sgt. Reckless and wrote articles about her for The Saturday Evening Post in the 1950s.
Because requesting the bids is so easy, purchasing officers approach more suppliers; the increased competition has lowered the cost of goods by 5-20%.
Physicians need to be just as concerned about health IT systems that lack interoperability, add complexity to the workflow, and introduce usability issues that threaten patient safety as purchasing officers and system administrators.
In addition, Mr. Stewart's purchasing officers have conducted a handful of auctions on Freemarkets.com, where suppliers bid for the right to sell their goods to Raytheon.
That's the brief of Siebel Systems (Forbes, May 19) and Aurum Software, which sell programs that help salespeople reach corporate purchasing officers at the most propitious times.
It shouldn't be surprising then that as their long-term contracts come up for renewal, these purchasing officers are beginning to look at new options to meet their needs.
Specific to Muanda where Cordaid PBF program was implemented, some key informants (health zone chief officer, purchasing agent manager) mentioned that women could report to members of the community-based organizations when the latter carried out household surveys.
