| ● |
Aug 20 |
Amazon US payout |
marketplace |
— |
$62,400 |
$188,240 |
expected |
settlement |
lands two days late about once a quarter |
| ● |
Aug 27 |
Freight, Container 1 |
freight |
$8,420 |
— |
$179,820 |
committed |
C1 · NGB-4471 |
booking is already made |
| ● |
Aug 30 |
PO 1308 balance on B/L |
supplier |
$47,894 |
— |
$131,926 |
committed |
PO 1308 |
goods do not sail until it clears |
| ● |
Sep 03 |
Amazon US payout |
marketplace |
— |
$58,900 |
$190,826 |
expected |
settlement |
reserve can hold back 10% without notice |
| ● |
Sep 12 |
Duty and customs entry, C1 |
duty |
$4,102 |
— |
$186,724 |
estimated |
C1 entry |
HS codes without a rate default to 7.5% |
|
Three certainties, and they are never added into one number. Committed is a wire somebody has already agreed to send and it will happen. Expected is a marketplace payout, which arrives on a schedule Amazon can change without telling anybody and can be held back by a reserve. Estimated is a duty entry computed from HS codes, some of which fall back to a default rate. A single “projected balance” that mixes all three reads as a fact and is a guess, so the balance column is shown per row and the header states what it assumes.
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| ● |
Sep 20 |
PO 1315 deposit, 30% |
supplier |
$18,240 |
— |
$168,484 |
committed |
PO 1315 |
delays the ready date by however long it waits |
| ● |
Oct 05 |
Walmart + Target payout |
marketplace |
— |
$21,480 |
$189,964 |
expected |
settlement |
Target pays 30 days after the month |
| ● |
Oct 18 |
Freight, Container 2 |
freight |
$8,420 |
— |
$181,544 |
committed |
C2 · YTN-8802 |
booking is already made |
| ● |
Nov 14 |
Q1 order deposits, 4 suppliers |
supplier |
$52,000 |
— |
$134,880 |
estimated |
— |
miss it and Q1 arrives in April |
|
The Chinese New Year wall is a November cash decision, not a February inventory problem. The factories close Feb 10 to 24 and stop taking new work well before that, so anything wanted in Q1 has to be ordered by about Dec 20 — which means deposits of roughly $52,000 leaving in mid-November, in the same weeks the balance is already low. By the time the shelves look empty in March the decision was four months ago. That is why a cash board runs thirteen weeks forward rather than showing a balance today.
|
| ● |
— |
Deposits already out, in factories |
committed |
$130,820 |
— |
— |
committed |
9 open POs |
not cash, not inventory, on no report as either |