Supply Chain Fundamentals and Integration Questions

Knowledge of how procurement fits into the end to end supply chain and how sourcing choices affect inventory, production schedules, fulfillment and customer delivery. Candidates should demonstrate understanding of supply and demand alignment, lead time implications, supplier capacity constraints, order planning and the handoffs between procurement, planning and operations. Interviewers probe the ability to model trade offs between cost, lead time and service level, to describe common planning processes such as sales and operations planning and to identify actions that improve coordination across functions to reduce disruptions and latency.