How to fund a MASSIVE retail order with purchase order funding

👇 FIND TENDERS & FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES (START HERE) 👉 Explore live tenders on TenderCentral: https://tendercentral.co.za/?utm_sour... 👉 Apply for funding: https://www.sourcefin.co.za/funding-a... 👉 Join The Calabash Letter (The Great Enabler community): https://www.greatenabler.co.za/the-ca... 👉 Watch our guide to 10 types of business funding that solve specific problems: https://www.greatenabler.co.za/busine... *** WATCH THE FULL EPISODE    • How to survive a MASSIVE retail order   *** How do you fund a 35,000-unit order when the banks say no? You find a funder who backs the opportunity, not just your bank statement. In this clip from The Great Enabler Podcast, Jedd Harris sits down with Chuck Chilli Foods co-founder Tshepiso Manyoha to unpack how a small food brand financed its biggest order yet. Tshepiso explains why a 35,000-unit order from Pick n Pay was bigger than anything Chuck Chilli had made in an entire year, why traditional banks and DFIs couldn't fund it, and how a referral from FNB led them to Sourcefin instead — plus what "fit-for-purpose funding" and staged drawdowns actually looked like in practice. And most importantly – why the banks that said no were still part of the reason the right funder said yes. *** 🎯 In this video, we unpack: 1️⃣ Why a 35,000-unit order from Pick n Pay was bigger than anything Chuck Chilli had made in a year 2️⃣ Why traditional banks and DFIs couldn't fund the order 3️⃣ How FNB referred Chuck Chilli to Sourcefin instead of funding the deal itself 4️⃣ What "fit-for-purpose funding" actually means in practice 5️⃣ Why staged drawdowns let a small brand take on a massive order without gambling the business *** ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Scaling a food brand to 35,000 units 13:03 Why banks couldn't fund the order 19:33 Why fit-for-purpose funding matters 22:05 Subscribe to The Great Enabler Podcast *** 👤 About Tshepiso Manyoha Tshepiso Manyoha is a South African entrepreneur and co-founder of Chuck Chilli Foods, a premium South African chilli sauce brand built on hand-chopped, chunky-texture chillies with no artificial preservatives, sold through major national retailers. He co-founded the company with Boikano Sikwane, who created the original recipe. Connect with Tshepiso: 👉 Instagram:   / tshepisoman   *** 🎙 About The Great Enabler Podcast The Great Enabler Podcast is a South African business education series focused on real entrepreneurs building real businesses in the real economy. 👉 Visit The Great Enabler website: https://www.greatenabler.co.za/ *** 🚀 Powered by Sourcefin This clip is brought to you by Sourcefin, a South African alternative funding partner specialising in: • Purchase order & tender funding • Invoice discounting / invoice funding Instead of offering generic business loans, Sourcefin focuses on matching the right funding solution to the specific business problem. *** 👍 Finally If this clip helped you think differently about funding a big retail order: Like the video. Subscribe for more conversations. Comment your biggest business challenge.