The Vendor Base: Who Makes What, and Why
You place one autumn buy from the buyer's chair. You screen a list of 22 approved suppliers down to the five that could actually take the order. You then follow the cheapest qualified quote all the way to what it really cost, and price a consolidation against the alternative it quietly removed.
Published by Merchandising Academy · First lesson free to read
Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can place an order with the supplier who can genuinely take it, and run a dated critical path across a portfolio rather than one order. You can judge a factory on evidence rather than on its last excuse, and act on a slip while there is still time to act.
Who it is for
Brand and buying-office teams.
What you will produce
You build a working vendor base for one category. You run a five-stage screen from an approved list to the suppliers who can genuinely take one order. You draw a two-way concentration map. You build a delivered-cost comparison that reaches the costs no invoice carries. You work out an onboarding cost per supplier. And you price an exit sequence.
Learning format
3 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.