Purchasing Managers
ManagementAI exposure
- Data source: BLSPublished: 2026-08
Very high· relative
LowFour relative bandsVery highGroup-level value
Scale, basis and source
Four relative bands (Low / Moderate / High / Very high)
831 detailed occupations in the BLS Employment Projections table. Assigned per National Employment Matrix (NEM) code, so occupations sharing a NEM code carry the same band
- Data source: AnthropicPublished: 2026-03
0.200
0.000Range of values carried here0.745Scale, basis and source
- Data source: ILOPublished: 2025
0.42
0.09Range of values carried here0.70Group-level value
Scale, basis and source
Generative AI exposure index, 0–1 as published
ISCO-08 unit group — every occupation sharing the code gets this value
Computed by this site, not published by the ILO: of the 1,012 occupations this site links to the ILO dataset, 33% score at or above this value.
What kind of figure this source publishes
The BLS category is a relative rank, not an absolute level, and it is not a first-hand measurement: it groups an occupation's percentile ranks across several published studies into four bands. It is not an employment or wage forecast, not a probability of adoption, and it does not separate automation from augmentation.
Task-level exposure
Exposed tasks only| Task | Claude.aiRaw / share % | APIRaw / share % |
|---|---|---|
Participate in the development of specifications for equipment, products, or substitute materials.11-3061 | 0.0200100.0 | 0.010025.0 |
Review purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy.11-3061 | 0.00000.0 | 0.010025.0 |
Develop cost reduction strategies and savings plans.11-3061 | 0.00000.0 | 0.00000.0 |
Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for supplies and equipment.11-3061 | 0.00000.0 | —0 |
Develop and implement purchasing and contract management instructions, policies, and procedures.11-3061 | 0.00000.0 | —0 |
Analyze market and delivery systems to assess present and future material availability. | —0 | 0.010025.0 |
Review, evaluate, and approve specifications for issuing and awarding bids. | —0 | 0.010025.0 |
| Not observed on any surface — 11 task(s) — These tasks have no row in the source for this release. The 0 in the share row is a display-stage composition ratio; absence is what the — in the raw row states. | ||
Maintain records of goods ordered and received. | —0 | —0 |
Locate vendors of materials, equipment or supplies, and interview them to determine product availability and terms of sales. | —0 | —0 |
Control purchasing department budgets. | —0 | —0 |
Interview and hire staff, and oversee staff training. | —0 | —0 |
Resolve vendor or contractor grievances and claims against suppliers. | —0 | —0 |
Represent companies in negotiating contracts and formulating policies with suppliers. | —0 | —0 |
Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in buying, selling, and distributing materials, equipment, machinery, and supplies. | —0 | —0 |
Prepare bid awards requiring board approval. | —0 | —0 |
Prepare reports regarding market conditions and merchandise costs. | —0 | —0 |
Administer online purchasing systems. | —0 | —0 |
Arrange for disposal of surplus materials. | —0 | —0 |
Values in this tab are predicted labels, not observations. Eloundou et al. (2023) published two rating regimes — human raters and GPT-4 — and the β shown here is derived from the GPT-4 rater basis alone; the same task can take a different value under the other regime. The unit and the meaning differ from the observed shares (%) in the other tabs, so do not place them on the same axis.
| Task | βE1 + 0.5 × E2 |
|---|---|
Maintain records of goods ordered and received.O*NET Task ID 1020 | 1.0 |
Review purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy.O*NET Task ID 1025 | 1.0 |
Develop and implement purchasing and contract management instructions, policies, and procedures.O*NET Task ID 1027 | 1.0 |
Administer online purchasing systems.O*NET Task ID 1035 | 1.0 |
Locate vendors of materials, equipment or supplies, and interview them to determine product availability and terms of sales.O*NET Task ID 1021 | 0.5 |
Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for supplies and equipment.O*NET Task ID 1022 | 0.5 |
Control purchasing department budgets.O*NET Task ID 1023 | 0.5 |
Analyze market and delivery systems to assess present and future material availability.O*NET Task ID 1026 | 0.5 |
Participate in the development of specifications for equipment, products, or substitute materials.O*NET Task ID 1028 | 0.5 |
Resolve vendor or contractor grievances and claims against suppliers.O*NET Task ID 1029 | 0.5 |
Interview and hire staff, and oversee staff training.O*NET Task ID 1024 | 0.0 |
β = E1 + 0.5 × E2 · E1 = tasks where direct LLM access alone cuts time by at least 50%, E2 = tasks where software built on top of an LLM cuts time by at least 50%. Values take only 0 / 0.5 / 1.0.
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