The Gartner Supply Chain Podcast - Supply Chain Predicts 2022 (Strategy) With Simon Bailey

Supply Chain Predicts 2022 (Strategy) With Simon Bailey

01/18/22 • 22 min

In this podcast, guest Simon Bailey joins co-hosts Thomas O’Connor and Caroline Chumakov to discuss Predicts 2022: Supply Chain Strategy. With things changing so quickly, Gartner is exploring the medium-term future in order to help CSCOs make calculated risks based on our research.

A key topic discussed is how, when it comes to driving transformation and business impact, CSCOs are recognizing the critical role of collaborative digital ecosystems. How, to achieve competitive success, organizations are bringing together competitors, governments, non-governmental organizations, academia and startups such that they can compete as an ecosystem rather than discrete, individual firms.

We also explore the “Say-Do Gap.” Many organizations have made public commitments in areas including sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). However, some have yet to put solid plans in place to deliver these goals. Those organizations that are reporting progress toward their objectives and actively driving to close gaps with action are the ones that are seeing the benefits. This is a key driver behind two of our predictions: that by 2024, 70% of global organizations will report supply chain performance against corporate DEI objectives, and that by 2025, 90% of public sustainable packaging commitments won’t be met due to reliance on plastics and single-use packaging.

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The Future of Supply Chain 2022 With Suzie Petrusic

In this podcast, host Thomas O’Connor and guest Suzie Petrusic explore the future of supply chain. This conversation draws on analysis of our Future of Supply Chain Survey of nearly 1,000 supply chain leaders. The ultimate determination: CSCOs must reinvent the supply chain in four substantial ways. These reinventions must focus on human-centric design, dynamic execution of real-time decisions, authentic achievement of sustainability and commercial innovation-driven growth.

The conversation highlights how a shift from a location-centric to a human-centric work design will address advances in technology, changes that come with different generations of workers and the global supply chain talent shortage expected over the next three to five years. The discussion offers a real-world example of how Siemens has leveraged citizen developers to accelerate automation.

Next the discussion explores how supply chains need to shift from operational excellence to driving commercial innovation and concludes by recommending what supply chain leaders should think about heading into the new year.

In short, this is an opportunity for the supply chain not just to respond to the reinventions demanded of it, but an opportunity to drive the world to that reinvented future.

See Supply Chain Executive Report: The Future of Supply Chain 2022 for deeper and additional insights into the topics discussed during this podcast.

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Supply Chain Predicts 2022 (Technology) With Dwight Klappich

In this podcast, guest Dwight Klappich joins co-hosts Thomas O’Connor and Caroline Chumakov to discuss Predicts 2022: Supply Chain Technology. With things changing so quickly, Gartner is exploring the medium-term future in order to help CSCOs make calculated risks based on our research. Specifically, two predictions are explored during the podcast:

By 2026, more than 75% of commercial supply chain management applications vendors will deliver embedded advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and data science.
Through 2025, 25% of supply chain decisions will be made across intelligent edge ecosystems.

Organizations are focused on investing in digital transformation and decision making, evaluating technology that can help them become more agile, adaptive and flexible. This decision making involves embedded intelligence and data science. Those with greater risk tolerance and resources are the earlier adopters. To make the transition from early adopter to mainstream, more packaged solutions need to be available — and vendors are responding.

We discuss how enhanced decision making is a top funding priority for supply chains because quality, speedy decisions are increasingly important. Supply chains are getting more complex and the number of disruptive events is increasing. Supply chains have to be more responsive, which is causing companies to rethink their IT architectures. More decision making is being pushed to the edge, which requires the ability to make rapid decisions in near real time, as close to the point of need as possible. More investment will be needed to build this.