Running a Digital Critical Path
You take forty live orders and one shared calendar. You see why a critical path whose dates never move is unread rather than stable. You decide who is allowed to move a date, and what a moved date costs the steps after it. And you do the arithmetic of an order made late by seven decisions that were each correct.
Published by Merchandising Academy · First lesson free to read
Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can name the numbers you are accountable for and where each one comes from, run a critical path in a system rather than a file, and make the case for or against moving a process off a spreadsheet.
Who it is for
Factory, supplier, brand and buying-office teams.
What you will produce
You build a working method for a live critical path. You set three date fields with three owners. You write a completion definition as the question the next person asks. You pick a short list of gates by their refusal rate. You keep a slack ledger for one order. And you produce a weekly exception list that replaces the status meeting.
Learning format
5 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.
Best taken after 7.1 Order to Ship: the Critical Path. You can read this one without it. Some of the arithmetic will just have to be taken on trust.