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Course N°191 — E-commerce

Inventory Cash Machine: Forecast, Reorder, Never Stock Out

with Incipio Studio

Original curriculum by Incipio Academy

Build the forecasting and reorder system that keeps bestsellers in stock and cash out of dead inventory. Spreadsheet-simple maths you can run in fifteen minutes a week.

16 lessons16 videos4h 26mIntermediateLifetime access

What you’ll walk away with

Skills, not certificates of attendance

01Forecast demand per SKU using velocity, trend and seasonality
02Set reorder points and safety stock that match real lead times
03Budget purchases against cash with a simple open-to-buy plan
04Spot dead stock early and clear it without torching margin
05Run a weekly stock review in fifteen minutes or hand it off

Curriculum

4 chapters · 16 lessons

4h 26m total
01Read the Demand Signal
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  1. 1Clean Your Sales History: Stockouts, Promos and OutliersVideo
    14:20
  2. 2Forecasting by SKU: Velocity, Trend and SeasonalityVideo
    18:40
  3. 3Forecasting New Products With No Sales HistoryVideo
    13:05
  4. 4Checking Yourself: Forecast Error, Bias and Monthly ReviewVideo
    15:10
02Reorder Maths That Prevents Stockouts
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  1. 1Lead Time Truth: Production, Freight, Customs and ReceivingVideo
    16:30
  2. 2Safety Stock and Service Levels Without the Statistics DegreeVideo
    17:45
  3. 3Reorder Points, Order Quantity and the MOQ TrapVideo
    19:20
  4. 4Build the One-Page Reorder Sheet in a SpreadsheetVideo
    24:15
03The Cash Side of Stock
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  1. 1Open-to-Buy: Budget Purchases Against Available CashVideo
    18:40
  2. 2Cash Conversion Cycle: Deposits, Supplier Terms and FloatVideo
    15:05
  3. 3Funding Inventory: Credit Lines, Terms and Purchase Order FinanceVideo
    20:10
  4. 4Dead Stock Triage: Markdown, Bundle, Liquidate or Write OffVideo
    14:25
04Run It Every Week
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  1. 1The Monday Stock Review: Five Numbers, Fifteen MinutesVideo
    12:35
  2. 2Peak Season Planning: Buy Dates, Cut-offs and the Air Freight CallVideo
    21:50
  3. 3Allocating Stock Across DTC, Amazon and WholesaleVideo
    17:20
  4. 4Hand the Process to a VA or Ops Hire Without Losing ControlVideo
    13:15

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Incipio Studio

Original curriculum by Incipio Academy

Incipio Studio is the academy's in-house curriculum team. Studio courses distill proven playbooks, frameworks, and operator interviews into structured, do-this-next lessons, researched and produced by Incipio Academy.

“We cut dead stock by a third in one quarter and finally stopped running out of our two bestsellers. The reorder sheet alone paid for the course ten times over.”

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