Produktionsplaner/Fertigungssteuerer & Supply Chain Coordinator (m/w/d)
Posted Sep 18, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you had to coordinate design, purchasing, assembly and logistics to save a delivery.
What they are checking: Whether they can pull several departments together toward one deadline.
Tell me about a process improvement you made in planning or supply chain.
What they are checking: Whether they improve the way work is planned rather than just keeping up with it.
What would you do
A key compressor component is delayed and a customer delivery date is at risk. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they act early with purchasing, production and the customer instead of waiting for the miss.
What do you do when the bill of materials in the system doesn't match what assembly actually uses?
What they are checking: Whether they fix master data at the source so the error does not keep repeating.
Production wants to batch orders for efficiency, but sales wants a rush order squeezed in. How do you decide?
What they are checking: Whether they weigh cost and customer impact fairly and explain the trade-off clearly.
About the work
How do you build a production plan that accounts for capacity, material availability and delivery dates at the same time?
What they are checking: Whether they can balance competing limits instead of planning against only one of them.
Which ERP systems have you used to manage production orders, bills of materials and routings?
What they are checking: Whether they can maintain master data and orders accurately in an ERP like SAP.
How do you spot a capacity bottleneck before it shows up as a late order?
What they are checking: Whether they read load data ahead of time and plan around constraints.
How do you measure and improve on-time delivery performance?
What they are checking: Whether they track delivery reliability and act on the causes of misses.
How do you track and analyze schedule deviations each week?
What they are checking: Whether they look for patterns in delays instead of handling each one as a surprise.
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