Purchase to pay

Raising, approving, and receipting orders, and resolving invoice and payment queries, through the organisation's purchasing system and financial controls.

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Levels

1. Awareness: You can:

explain the "no purchase order, no payment" rule and why it matters
raise a requisition in the purchasing system
2. Working: You can:

create and amend purchase orders and check them against contracts
resolve invoice, receipting, and payment queries with suppliers and finance
maintain catalogues and supplier records in the purchasing system
3. Practitioner: You can:

run the purchase to pay process for a service, monitoring compliance and backlogs
analyse spend data to find off-contract spend and savings
improve the process and controls with finance colleagues
4. Expert: You can:

set the organisation's purchase to pay policy, controls, and systems
lead the move to fully electronic purchasing and invoicing

Closest ESCO skills

manage purchasing cycle (close match)
issue purchase orders (narrow match)
use e-procurement (close match)

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role level	Role	Band	Expected level
Procurement assistant	Procurement officer	3	Working
Buyer	Procurement officer	4	Practitioner