The Critical Path Across a Portfolio
You take forty-one live orders at nine factories in five countries, all landing in one receiving window. You learn to anchor a portfolio calendar on the warehouse door rather than the ship, to compare unlike orders on the one number that travels between them, and to see the approval queue on your own desk for what it is: a step on every one of those critical paths.
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 portfolio float board for a whole order book, sorted on one comparable number. You re-sequence an approval queue by float rather than by arrival, and price the saving. And you build a weekly triage rota that fits the hours that actually exist, including a written note of what you are deliberately not looking at.
Learning format
3 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.