Okuzeka
Logistics & Supply Chain vocabulary · Procurement and Purchasing

Buyer

Meaning in logistics & supply chain, with examples

/ˈbaɪər/nounCore term

In logistics & supply chain, buyer means: A person whose job is to buy goods or services for a company, or more generally the party that purchases the goods in a sale.

In Turkish: satın alma uzmanı, satın almacı, alıcı

How it is used

In companies it is a job title in the purchasing team (buyer, senior buyer, category buyer). In contracts and Incoterms, 'the buyer' and 'the seller' are the two parties; on shipping documents the receiving party is called the consignee instead.

Example sentences

  1. Our buyer is meeting two new packaging suppliers next week.

  2. Under EXW, the buyer is responsible for loading, export clearance and transport.

Common collocations

  • senior buyer
  • category buyer
  • buyer and seller
  • the buyer's premises
  • procurementThe process of finding, choosing and buying the goods and services a company needs, including negotiating with suppliers and managing contracts.
  • purchase orderAn official document a buyer sends to a supplier to order goods or services, listing the items, quantities, prices and delivery terms.
  • supplierA company or person that provides goods, materials or services to another business, usually at an agreed price and on agreed delivery terms.
  • consigneeThe person or company to whom goods are sent and who is entitled to receive them at the destination, as named on the transport document.
  • EXWShort for Ex Works: the Incoterms rule in which the seller only makes the goods available at its own premises, and the buyer handles loading, export clearance and all transport.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

More terms: Procurement and Purchasing

Practise with graded reading

Reading at the right level is the fastest way to make new words stick. Pick free English books by level: