The requirements for being an order management representative
Being a vital part of any B2B or B2C business, an order management representative is responsible for handling the end-to-end cycle of receiving, processing and delivering the order.
According to research, this
career path is expected to grow and produce 7,300 jobs in the time duration of
2018-2028.
Skills
of an order management representative
There are certain skills
that we’ve shortlisted from the resumes of multiple candidates who applied for
the job of the order
management representative. According to those resumes, the skills that
were common among many candidates were:
·
The skill of
order entry was mentioned by 8.1% of the representatives
·
Customer
services were common in 7.9% of the resumes
·
The order status
was mentioned by 7.1% of the candidates
These hard skills are
essential to develop if you want to get success in this field.
Which industry is suitable for order management representative?
Finding a job in the right
industry is important if you want to have success throughout your career. For
most of the representatives of order management, they can find opportunity in the
technology and manufacturing industry.
How you can become an order management representative?
There are multiple things
that you might need to consider choosing this path as your career, and the most
important one is education. According to our research,
·
45% of the
representatives have a degree in Bachelors’
·
11.3% of them have
the degree of Masters
Even though most the
representatives that you find will have a college degree, but a high school
degree or GED is also enough for this job.
Responsibilities and duties of the
representative
The major obligations that a
company could ask you as the order
management representative includes:
·
Final charge
calculation
·
Documenting the
details of the order on the order tracking system
·
Buying the
inventory from manufacturers and retailers
·
Sending out the
purchase orders
·
Contacting
customers for approval on their orders
In addition to these, there
are some customer support related services that you should have command on,
·
Answering the
queries of customers related to order
·
Other data entry
tasks
Assistances you can provide to the company
·
Centralized orders
When you are working for an
order management company, you can centralize their orders at one place to avoid
any kind of confusion later.
·
Managing Inventory
The best value you can add
to your company is to manage its inventory and stocks to make the whole
experience easy for their customers. Through this, you can attract more
customers to the company’s website.
·
Handling Real-time order status
This feature is an effective
way to communicate the order details with the customers, so it is a huge task
that you will be responsible for. Make sure you know how to handle such a system.
·
Attaining Order Accuracy
As the order management representative,
you must be able to achieve maximum order accuracy from the process of
receiving it to delivering it.
With the world moving
towards online shopping trends, different e-commerce and shopping stores have
appeared in the market. This has increased the demand for a representative for
effective order management.
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