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Procurement Clerks
Compile information and records to draw up purchase orders for procurement of materials and services.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Track the status of requisitions, contracts, and orders.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Perform buying duties when necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Prepare purchase orders and send copies to suppliers and to departments originating requests.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Calculate costs of orders, and charge or forward invoices to appropriate accounts.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Compare prices, specifications, and delivery dates to determine the best bid among potential suppliers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Approve and pay bills.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Maintain knowledge of all organizational and governmental rules affecting purchases, and provide information about these rules to organization staff members and to vendors.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Determine if inventory quantities are sufficient for needs, ordering more materials when necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Check shipments when they arrive to ensure that orders have been filled correctly and that goods meet specifications.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Contact suppliers to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and other problems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss24%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
61%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 82% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 32% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.