Supply Chain & Vendor Management

Most small businesses learn supply chain the hard way: a key supplier slips a ship date during a busy season, a container of off-spec goods arrives with no recourse, or a single-source factory goes dark and freezes the whole operation. This course replaces that fragility with a repeatable system used across procurement and operations: structured supplier qualification, clean purchase orders and incoterms that protect you, AQL-based quality control, lead-time and buffer math that absorbs variability, and supplier scorecards that turn vendor management into a measurable discipline. By the end you can source, contract, receive, and manage suppliers with documents and numbers that hold up under pressure.