T27

Buyer-Side Order and Supplier Management

Buyer-Side Order and Supplier Management: 5 courses and 22 lessons on ATMA. Every lesson is free to read, with an Excel template for each course.

T27-C01 Build and Manage the Vendor Base

1. What a vendor base actually decides that a single supplier relationship does not
2. Qualifying a new supplier before placing a first order
3. Segmenting a vendor base by real performance, not by how long a supplier has been used
4. Deciding when to add a second supplier for a style already running well with one
5. Building a complete vendor base management worksheet

T27-C02 Raise and Control the Buyer Order

1. What raising a buyer order actually commits a business to
2. Checking a purchase order against its own quotation before it is issued
3. Confirming an order with a supplier without leaving any term ambiguous
4. Amending a live order without losing track of what actually changed
5. Building a complete buyer order control checklist

T27-C03 Manage the Critical Path Across Suppliers

1. Building a critical path that covers every supplier an order actually depends on
2. Tracking a critical path date across a supplier your own buying office cannot see directly
3. Deciding which missed critical path date actually threatens the ship date
4. Building a complete cross-supplier critical path tracker

T27-C04 Approvals, OTIF and Supplier Scorecards

1. Tracking every approval a supplier needs before an order can proceed
2. Calculating a supplier's own on-time-in-full rate from real shipment records
3. Building a supplier scorecard that predicts next season's risk, not just scores last season
4. Building a complete approvals and OTIF scorecard worksheet

T27-C05 Escalation, Expediting and Cancellation

1. Deciding when a supplier delay needs escalation rather than routine follow-up
2. Deciding whether expediting an order is worth its own extra cost
3. Deciding when cancelling a confirmed order is the right call despite the sunk cost
4. Building a complete escalation, expediting and cancellation decision tool

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