How many purchase orders did you place in a week? What was the average dollar value of the POs? Name some of the vendors you purchased from. How many parts did you purchase? How many product lines did you buy for? How many parts did the company have in total? What do you like to do in your free time? What book have you read lately? Tell me about the book. How do you determine your stock levels? What is ABC/XYZ? What is the "ABC" in ABC/XYZ? What is the "XYZ" in ABC/XYZ? How do you determine what to buy and what to make? How do you select vendors? How do you rate their performance? How often do you rate the vendor's performance (on-time delivery, etc)? What software do you use for vendor performance evaluation?
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Describe a time where you had conflict in the work area and how did you handle stress.
Tell us about your background
Why do you want to work here? What's your contribution
ask about experiences, strength, weakness.
As there were 5 interviewers, there were several questions from different areas. It was exhausting and overwhelming. Lasted for over 2 hours
What is your salary requirement?
nothing really that helped me sell myself
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