SOC 13-1081 · Logisticians
Supply chain, tested on the work
Award a supply contract on a landed cost that three quotes, written on three different terms, do not agree on.
The assignment
What the candidate is asked to do
The candidate is given a sourcing packet — quotes, a broker's classification memo, origin paperwork, freight quotes, plant notes and a drafted recommendation — and writes the award memo a council reads on Thursday. An AI assistant is available throughout, and nothing inside the conversation can settle which of the quoted numbers are comparable.
Time: 40 to 60 minutes, hard-capped 15 to 20 minutes past whatever the case states and never above 75, with a short written debrief after. Paused time does not count against either.
SOC 13-1081
Logisticians. The benchmark is derived from live postings mapped to that code and re-derived each quarter.
What the reviewer watches for
The supply chain failure modes
Each maps to a scored dimension, so the reviewer's finding arrives with the moment attached.
Is the decision the council is actually making named before any costs are compared?
Whether the opening move asks what is true, what is wrong, or what the options are — and whether a constraint or criterion is named in the same breath.
Is a source demanded for the duty rate the recommendation rests on, and opened?
Whether sources are demanded for a specific claim rather than requested in general — and whether at least one is actually opened.
Is the drafted recommendation refused on substance, or reworded and sent?
Whether the split between the assistant's work and the candidate's own acts is deliberate rather than convenient, read from the record of both.
Why this bank
Why we built the supply chain bank
Being wrong here is not a missed quarter but a customs penalty, and it is the only bank whose readings can later be checked against outcomes the world settles by itself — forecast accuracy at the end of the horizon, landed cost at liquidation, lead time at the receipt.
This bank is live and has passed author review at launch quality.
https://olive.is/benchmarks · Edition 2026 Q3Named up front
Award a supply contract on a landed cost that three quotes, written on three different terms, do not agree on.
The construct
Six dimensions, scored separately
- D1 · Problem framing Did the first move go after understanding, or straight for output?
- D2 · Evidence sourcing Did they demand evidence for the claim that mattered?
- D3 · Delegation boundary What did they keep, and what did they hand over?
- D4 · Working structure Did anything exist between the brief and the answer?
- D5 · Output rejection Was anything the assistant produced refused, and on what grounds?
- D6 · Verification Was anything tested against the world, and did the result change something?
SOC 13-1081
Run one supply chain role, free
Ten attempts a month against this bank, with the full six-dimension report on every one. No card, no salesperson.