Supply Chain Planning Intern practice interview
Demand data, basic forecasting, inventory trade-offs, planning assumptions and cross-team updates. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Entry
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
A supply chain planning intern supports forecasts, stock reviews and planning reports while learning how demand and supply decisions connect. The interview focuses on structured thinking, clean spreadsheet work, curiosity about business drivers and the ability to explain assumptions rather than pretending a forecast is certain.
How to prepare
- Review basic demand patterns, lead time, safety stock, stock-outs and excess inventory.
- Practise cleaning and summarising a small demand dataset in a spreadsheet.
- Prepare to explain how promotions, seasonality, supply interruptions and unusual orders can distort a forecast.
- Think of an academic or personal project where you checked data and communicated a finding.
- Review how sales, procurement, warehouse and transport information feeds a supply plan.
Common mistakes
- Treating the latest sales figure as a forecast without checking what caused it.
- Presenting a number without stating its source, period or assumptions.
- Using complicated spreadsheet formulas that you cannot explain or audit.
- Focusing only on stock-outs and ignoring the cost and risk of excess inventory.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
More early careers practice
Supply Planning Graduate Trainee
Production and replenishment planning, capacity constraints, stock priorities and coordination across an FMCG supply chain.
Logistics and supply chainPro
ProSupply Chain Planning Manager
Integrated demand and supply plans, inventory choices, capacity constraints, planning data and cross-functional decisions.
Logistics and supply chainProInventory Optimisation Manager
Balancing product availability, working capital, forecast uncertainty and replenishment across a complex inventory network.