Requisition merchandise from supplier, based on available space, merchandise on hand, customer demand, or advertised specials.

“Requisition merchandise from supplier, based on available space, merchandise on hand, customer demand, or advertised specials.” is a supplemental task performed by Stockers and Order Fillers. Among the occupation's 30 rated tasks, workers place it 6th by importance (#25 most important). About 48% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Purchase goods or services. in Monitoring and Controlling Resources

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Complete order receipts. · importance 4.7
• Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection. · importance 4.6
• Compute prices of items or groups of items. · importance 4.4
• Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions. · importance 4.4
• Keep records of out-going orders. · importance 4.2
• Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise. · importance 4.2
• Operate equipment such as forklifts. · importance 4.2
• Stamp, attach, or change price tags on merchandise, referring to price list. · importance 4.1
• Obtain merchandise from bins or shelves. · importance 4.1
• Itemize and total customer merchandise selection at checkout counter, using cash register, and accept cash or charge card for purchases. · importance 4.1
• Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer. · importance 4.0
• Read orders to ascertain catalog numbers, sizes, colors, and quantities of merchandise. · importance 4.0
• Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise. · importance 4.0
• Pack customer purchases in bags or cartons. · importance 3.9

See all tasks on the Stockers and Order Fillers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-23897,
  title  = {Requisition merchandise from supplier, based on available space, merchandise on hand, customer demand, or advertised specials.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-23897}
}