Questionnaire

Supply chain Network configuration

Inventory and Merchandise Optimization

Q. What is the structure of your supply chain? (Suppliers, company

names, warehouses, different parameter)
Q. your supply chain is responsive or cost effective?
Q. Why you select this location? (response behind the selection)
Q. Please elaborate factors which remain under supply chain design?
Q. In case of uncertainty in public market risk what are your major
strategies for that situation?
Q. How much distance in your warehouses and stores?(decision
making point for close to stores)
Q. Discuss inbound logistics, internal and outbound logistics?
Q. How much capacity allocate to each facility?(capacity in term of
size)
Q. How to manage inventory to match supply and demand?
Q. Which components of inventory decision uses in the supply chain?
Q. How you move your product from one place to another place
within the store?(machine uses, communication mode)
Q. How you have design transportation network?
Q. which software you used for supply chain management?
Q. How to communicate with your supplier and manufacture?
Q. Which type of purchasing process you followed centralized and
decentralized and explain?
Q. A company which have different products in portfolio, how you
deal the purchasing process?
Q. How many suppliers you have for a single product?
Q. How many 3PL are connected for transportation?
Q. How you adjust each category of family product?
Q. On which strategy used to eliminate risk and uncertainty?
Q. How many products assemble at national level that imports from
international markets?
Q. What is buying policy, explain it briefly?
Q How logistics performance is affected by the supply chain
relationship?
Q. How Metro elaborate their inventory & merchandise
optimization?
Q. Which strategies behind the display of product in the store?
Q. Hierarchy of employers, inventory, suppliers and manufacturer?