[Behavioral] Tell me about a time you improved supplier performance instead of just complaining about it.

I worked with a supplier that had become too inconsistent to trust casually, but the business still depended on them enough that switching immediately was not realistic. It would have been easy to keep escalating the failures and treating the relationship as purely reactive.

Instead, I pulled the performance issues into a more structured review, clarified the commitments we needed, and made the recovery...