Running the Order
You follow how a confirmed purchase order becomes a container on a vessel, and who owns each day in between.
After this track you can
You can take a live export order from confirmation to ship clearance on a dated critical path you built yourself, and recover it when a supplier slips.
7 courses · 13 h 57 min
- 7.1Order to Ship: the Critical PathPractitioner4 lessons · 2 h 23 minYou follow one real export order from the purchase order all the way to the container.
- 7.2Sampling Management: the Queue, the Rounds and the PP GatePractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 50 minYou follow one wool coat order through its whole sample programme. You see what each sample type is actually for, what a round costs in cash and in calendar days, and why the pre-production sample is the only one with no float behind it.
- 7.3Buyer Communication and NegotiationPractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 50 minYou take the whole commercial conversation on one live export order. You see what is really negotiable, and the day each thing locks shut. You write the same problem twice, once as a report and once as a decision. And you price four seasons of small favours, then read them against the discount the buyer asks for next season.
- 7.4Capacity Planning and Order BookingAdvanced3 lessons · 2 h 10 minYou answer one enquiry properly. You turn a factory from pieces into standard minutes. You cost the learning curve on the booking it distorts. You load a season into a dated week grid instead of a capacity total. Then you price six ways out of the shortfall against the same order margin.
- 7.5Delays, Claims and ChargebacksPractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 44 minYou take the same export order when the plan breaks. You read the signals while there is still time, price every recovery option against the margin, and tell the buyer in a way that keeps the programme.
- 7.6Buyer POs, Amendments and Order GovernancePractitioner3 lessons · 2 h 10 minA purchase order is a contract that keeps changing while you carry it out. You take one export order through five revisions. You find the clauses that were never printed on the order itself, and the cut that was made against a revision five weeks out of date.
- 7.7Approval GovernancePractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 50 minAn approval is the moment risk moves from the buyer to you, and most are given in a form that moves nothing. You learn what a binding approval carries, which ones release work, and the register that proves it.
Track exam
14 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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