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When have you had to change suppliers due to poor quality of their product?

This is a bit of a minefield question. Suppliers should not be allowed to reach this point, but you will also need to show your ability to recover should a supplier drop their quality.

"We identified a critical quality issue with a supplier of [part/product]. After several rounds of exchanges and meetings to attempt to solve the problem, we had to change suppliers as they were unable to meet the agreed upon quality standards"

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When have you had to change suppliers due to poor quality of their product?

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