Office supplies and vendor management

Skills you'll practise

• Calculate a reorder point from daily use, lead time and safety stock, and decide what to reorder
• Check a delivery against the purchase order and record shortages, back orders and damage
• Compare vendors on total annual cost, not unit price
• Verify any change to a vendor's bank details through contact details already on file

Course outline

1. 1.Office supplies and vendor managementVideo · 2 min
2. 2.Stock levels and reorder pointsLesson · 14 min
3. 3.Ordering, receiving and checkingLesson · 13 min
4. 4.Choosing and managing vendorsLesson · 13 min
5. 5.Office supplies and vendor management: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 17 questions
6. 6.Office supplies and vendor management: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
7. 7.Out of toner before a client presentationScenario
8. 8.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• General office supplies and inventory practice (stock records, reorder points, receiving, supplier records)
• General accounts-payable controls: purchase-order matching, approvals, segregation of duties
• General payment-fraud awareness: business email compromise and changed bank details