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ATS resume keywords for Procurement and Sourcing

These are the 24 terms our scorer checks a Procurement and Sourcing resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • procurement
  • sourcing
  • rfq
  • rfp
  • tender
  • vendor management
  • supplier evaluation
  • purchase order
  • purchase requisition
  • contract negotiation
  • cost saving
  • spend analysis
  • category management
  • sap mm
  • ariba
  • supplier onboarding
  • lead time
  • incoterms
  • landed cost
  • vendor rationalisation
  • e procurement
  • make or buy
  • supplier audit
  • total cost of ownership

The eight questions for Procurement and Sourcing

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.What is the annual spend you are responsible for?
  2. 2.How many vendors do you manage, and how many did you onboard?
  3. 3.How many purchase orders or requisitions do you process in a month?
  4. 4.What savings have you negotiated, in rupees or percentage?
  5. 5.How many tenders or RFQs have you run?
  6. 6.What is your average procurement cycle time, and has it improved?
  7. 7.Which categories do you buy?
  8. 8.Which systems do you raise and track in?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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