Improvement of human resources in purchasing by creating job profiles, in small- and medium enterprises

With a focus on small- and medium enterprises, this paper focuses on the importance of human resources to improve the Purchasing department. Organizations should create job profiles based on Purchasing roles and competency requirements to recruit suitable personnel, but also to create a lifelong learning process aimed at the needs of individuals. In doing so, this paper uses the supply of Purchasing education to create a lifelong learning process that is ready for implementation.