Buyer-Side Order Management
This is the mirror of Running the Order, from the buyer's chair: placing work with the right supplier, holding a calendar across many of them at once, and knowing which factory is actually performing.
After this track you can
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.
6 courses · 11 h 50 min
- 27.1The Vendor Base: Who Makes What, and WhyPractitioner3 lessons · 2 hYou 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.
- 27.2Raising the Order: What a Buyer's PO CommitsPractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 50 minYou follow one purchase order from the four minutes it took to raise to the payment it blocked. You see what issuing it commits the buyer to, and the clause in the buyer's own terms that makes the supplier's date conditional. You meet an ex-factory date no approval calendar in the building could have met. And you price three changes from the side that asked for them.
- 27.3The Critical Path Across a PortfolioPractitioner3 lessons · 2 h 10 minYou 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.
- 27.4Approvals from the Giving SidePractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 50 minAn approval looks like paperwork. It is the moment risk stops being the supplier's and becomes yours. You cover what each one transfers, what a day of your silence actually costs, and why a condition nobody can check is a condition nobody can enforce.
- 27.5Measuring Suppliers: OTIF and the ScorecardAdvanced3 lessons · 2 hYou score one shipment six defensible ways, and the answers run from nothing to everything. You rebuild a vendor scorecard so that it measures the factory rather than the buyer who kept it waiting. Then you take the harder half: what a supplier does once it can read your formula.
- 27.6When It Slips: Escalation, Expediting and CancellationAdvanced3 lessons · 2 hYou follow one buyer's order running late, from the first signal to the settlement. You see how a delay is read from outside the factory, you price every recovery option on one order book, and you take the question of when a claim is worth less than the supplier who caused it.
Track exam
12 questions drawn from a larger bank, across the courses in this track, passed at 70%. 3 attempts, then it locks for 7 days. It is worth finishing the courses first.
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