Onboarding
This designated NABM specialist owns the end-to-end product management process for their team, including seasonal buys, contract management, and serving as the primary point of contact.
Who is an NABM Approved Buyer (or Champion)?
This Nike tool is used to create comp orders and search inventory availability.
What is NOW (Nike Operations Workspace)?
This role is responsible for creating and maintaining contracts in SAP and collaborates with S&IP on the factory buy and coverage picture.
What is an Inline Buyer?
This is what anyone in Brand Marketing should be doing on a regular basis after submitting an Inline Buy/Forecast to ensure that POs are created and that there are no dropped styles.
The deadlines for buy entry.
What is OED?
This tableau-based report provides a utilization snapshot and contract details, giving visibility to product on contract and driving accountability across brand teams.
What is the Executive Summary Dashboard & Search tool?
This status in NOW means an order has an error that must be resolved before the DC/plant receives it.
What is an exception (or failed in S4)?
This is how often you should update your seasonal buy template.
What happens on Tuesday & Wednesday (or twice a week?
This seasonal process allows Brand Marketing teams to reserve key products on contract for future marketing events, seeding, photoshoots, and activations.
What is the Inline Buy process?
This must happen at the end of every season for anything past its cancel date?
What is liquidating (or releasing) contracts at the end of every season?
This tool allows Approved Buyers (Champions) to view Merch boards and tagging so they can identify must-buy styles and compile product codes for the seasonal buying process.
What is Assort Visual (AV)?
The most common reason a unit gets rejected from an order or an order never ships (remains open).
What is no availability at the DC/plant?
This team will create factory po’s for all seasonal demand.
Who is the S&IP Team?
During this review checkpoint, occurring approximately weeks -16 to -12, buyers are encouraged to review contracts and release product no longer needed, creating flexibility to redirect inventory and reduce waste.
What is the Proactive Review & Release checkpoint?
This document is collected at week -38 to ensure that everyone in Brand Marketing understands the Leadership direction for seeding within a season.
What is the Seeding Artifact?
What its called when someone requests to add styles to a contract after the deadline (OED)
What are Late Adds?
This tool can view Nike products but is not a good way to accurately check product availability or inventory levels.
What is Nike.net?
Nike NOW indicates a style is invalid when processing a buy and these are 2 places to check and confirm.
What is MMX and S4 Nike Master Material Report?
This waste reduction action made a major impact in reducing overall order volume for NABM in FY27.
What are unit thresholds?
The most important connection Brand Teams have to ensure they have product for all their marketing needs in EMEA?
What is the EMEA PCM Team?
When taking over responsibilities from another Approved Buyer (Champion), this action should be completed to ensure visibility and management of existing contracts
What is requesting a transfer of contract ownership?
This feature in NOW is a quicker submission compared to filling out the styles and quantities line by line.
What is fast entry or create from contract?
The adjustments and steps to take if styles arrived early to the DC on a HO27 contract and the owner would like to start utilizing the product today.
What is adjust the header & line CRD Dates and force allocation?
These are partners who ensure our demand is bought, communicate changes to the line plan and update MMX data.
Who are the MIS Teams?
This happens at the start of every Inline Buy season and is communicated by the Global BMPM Team.
What is the Seasonal Kickoff?