Buyers set up vendors, suppliers and items, raise purchase orders by hand, and reorder by Min/Max, order point and EOQ, all against realistic stock and demand in the sandbox.
PO sent to the wrong supplier for the item
Wrong cost, longer lead time, a second PO to fix it
An item below its minimum never reordered
A stock-out on something customers buy every week
Order point or order quantity keyed wrong
Reorders land too late, or tie up cash on the shelf
Set up who you pay and who you buy from, add and retire items.
Ends with a module exam: a random draw of these skills, with fresh data.
Raise POs by hand, buy from a second supplier when the primary is out, and let Min/Max tell you what to reorder.
Ends with a module exam: a random draw of these skills, with fresh data.
Set an order point and order quantity, then reorder by OP/OQ and by economic order quantity.
Ends with a module exam: a random draw of these skills, with fresh data.
3 modules and 11 skills: Vendors, suppliers and items; Buying; Inventory control. Each skill is a guided lesson followed by a scored test with different data.
Simulated Prophet 21 windows, including Vendor Maintenance, Supplier Maintenance, Item Maintenance, Purchase Order Entry, PO Requirements/Generation. Nothing is entered in your live ERP.
Most skills take five to ten minutes. The purchasing track is 11 skills in 3 modules, each module ending in an exam, and managers set due dates per module.
Play a real lesson, take the scored test, then see what your manager would see.