PartnerRoundVantage Retail's warehouse bottleneck
An operations case with a genuine capacity calculation. Find the constraint before you spend capital.
30 minutesInterviewer-ledRetail
The prompt
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Vantage Retail runs a single distribution centre serving 180 stores. They are missing delivery windows on about 12% of store orders and are considering a GBP 40m second facility. Is that the right move?
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Set a timer and treat it as real. Do not pause to look things up.
Take thirty seconds before your structure, and say you are doing it. Silence reads as paralysis; announced silence reads as rigour.
Ask for specific data rather than “what do you have?”: the interviewer will push back on the vague version, exactly as a real one would.
Finish with a proper synthesis: recommendation first, then two or three supports, then risks and the next step.
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