General
More than just a uniform, this bright piece of apparel is decorated with badges and a values wheel worn over associates’ hearts to show what the company stands for.
What is the orange apron?
At The Home Depot, the acronym “IP&R” stands for this combination of inventory functions that make sure product is available where it’s needed.
What is Inventory Planning & Replenishment?
In 1979, The Home Depot opened its first two stores in this U.S. city?
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
This kind of testing checks that new code changes haven’t broken existing features and that previously passing tests still pass.
What is regression testing?
Doing the right thing, taking care of our people, and giving back to our communities are part of this set of eight guiding principles.
What are our core values?
These two co‑founders dreamed up The Home Depot in a Los Angeles coffee shop in 1978, then opened the first two Atlanta stores in 1979.
Who are Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank?
This end‑to‑end operating strategy unifies replenishment and customer fulfillment across channels and is closely tied to IP&R outputs.
What is One Supply Chain (1SC)?
The Home Depot was incorporated in this year, when our founders envisioned a superstore for DIYers in a Los Angeles coffee shop.
What is 1978?
In cloud‑native architectures, these small, independently deployable services each own a narrow business capability and communicate over the network.
What are microservices?
This foundation is the primary vehicle through which The Home Depot serves community needs, especially veterans and disaster response efforts.
What is The Home Depot Foundation?
Widely recognized as one of The Home Depot’s flagship power tool brand sold **exclusively** at The Home Depot.
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CAR’s automated SOQs primarily drive ordering for this type of facility in the network, which runs on the Catalyst warehouse management system.
What are Stocking Distribution Centers (SDCs) running Catalyst WMS?
Today, The Home Depot is the world’s largest retailer in this home‑focused category.
What is home improvement retail?
This deployment strategy runs two production environments side‑by‑side and flips all traffic between them at once, as opposed to gradually shifting a small percentage of users like a canary release.
What is a blue/green deployment?
This interactive guide, accessible from the Company page on myApron, is the go‑to resource for learning our history, values, benefits, and career paths.
What is THD101?
One of the most sold items at home depot, often used for cleanup and storage.
What is the orange Homer bucket?
This internal web application is the place where analysts can alter the receiving location for a purchase order.
What is POM UI?
Instead of calling it “headquarters,” we use this three‑word name for the Atlanta office that exists to support our stores.
What is the Store Support Center?
Modern observability practices often talk about three core “pillars” used together to understand system behavior in production: metrics, logs, and this third signal type that follows a request across services.
What are traces?
This diagram places customers and front‑line associates in a specific order to emphasize support rather than command.
What is the inverted pyramid?
In store lingo, this term describes the main traffic route that connects the customer and Pro entrances and loops around the center rows of racking in a typical Home Depot store.
What is the racetrack?
For import orders managed in POM, these rolled‑up purchase orders from vendor to DC are created directly by IP&R analysts using a specialized upload tool before allocation happens. Name both the PO type and the tool they use.
What are Aggregate POs created with the PPO Upload application?
More than 40 years after our first stores opened, approximately this many associates uphold The Home Depot’s core values every day (within 50,000).
What is about 470,000 associates?
In this architectural style, producers emit events to a broker (like Kafka or Pub/Sub) without knowing which consumers will react, allowing highly decoupled, asynchronous workflows.
What is an event‑driven architecture?
In THD’s aisles, associates are trained to follow this three‑letter customer‑engagement model that starts with acknowledging the customer, continues with understanding their project, and ends by showing appreciation for their business. Name the model and what each letter stands for.
What is GET – Greet, Engage, Thank?