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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Operations & Supply Chain

These are the 17 terms our scorer checks a Operations & Supply Chain resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • process improvement
  • sop
  • lean
  • six sigma
  • vendor management
  • inventory
  • logistics
  • cost reduction
  • capacity planning
  • kpi
  • sla
  • quality
  • cross-functional
  • erp
  • procurement
  • throughput
  • root cause

The eight questions for Operations & Supply Chain

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.What volume moves through your operation in a month?
  2. 2.How many people do you supervise, direct and contract?
  3. 3.What is your SLA or on time performance, and where did it start?
  4. 4.What inventory value or count do you hold?
  5. 5.How many vendors or partners do you manage?
  6. 6.What process have you improved, and what did it save in time or money?
  7. 7.Which systems do you plan and report in?
  8. 8.How many reports do you produce, to whom, and how often?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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