Supply Chain Interview Questions and Answers.

This is a great tutorial of supply chain interview questions and answers. These questions have sample answers to help prepare for various supply chain positions.

Supply Chain Quotes

“Leader win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.” ~ Tom Peters
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“We’re going to make shopping with us faster, easier and more enjoyable. We’ll do more than just save customers money and you, our associates, will make the difference. Looking ahead, we will compete with technology, but win with people. We will be people-led and tech-empowered.” ~Don McMillon, Walmart CEO.
“If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.” ~ Henry Ford, founder Ford Motor Company.
“Covid-19 made 2020 the year of supply chain. Shortages in retail items caused the supply chain to be stretched because of the huge increase in demand. Supply chain professionals did what was needed and made it happen. Now the Covid-19 vaccine needs to be distributed quickly and effectively which is another SCM challenge which will be overcome.” ~Dave Waters
“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.” ~Sun Tzu
“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collection the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.” ~Taiichi Ohno, Father of the Toyota Production
“Without logistics the world stops.” ~Dave Waters