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Monday, March 30, 2026 · Andrew Balthrop and Timothy Fitzgerald
Rising diesel prices are rapidly and fully passed through to shippers, not carriers, while the broader economic impact on supply chains and consumer prices remains limited.
The NextGen Supply Chain Conference has revamped its 2026 awards to emphasize real-world execution, introduced a new Partnership in Execution category, and opened submissions through May 15 for organizations delivering measurable supply chain results.
Thursday, March 26, 2026 · Andrew Byer and Mike Dobslaw
SKU segmentation enables supply chain leaders to prioritize products based on their strategic role, aligning inventory, service levels, and operational policies to drive better financial and operational performance.
Reshoring manufacturing in the U.S. is accelerating, but a severe shortage of skilled labor across technical, operational, and leadership roles threatens to undermine its long-term viability.
Layered artificial intelligence combined with behavioral data and network detection strategies is becoming essential for securing modern industrial supply chains against increasingly sophisticated, AI-enabled cyber threats.
AI-driven forecasting only delivers real business value when organizations rigorously measure forecast value add (FVA) to ensure every model, agent, and human intervention improves operational decision-making.
Warehouse physical AI is closing the long-standing gap between digital systems and on-the-ground operations by passively capturing real-time inventory data, enabling higher accuracy, improved OTIF performance, and more efficient labor utilization without heavy capital investment.
Thursday, March 19, 2026 · Pierfrancesco Manenti, VP Analyst, Gartner Supply Chain Practice
AI is enabling CSCOs to shift from reactive cost cutting to proactive, data-driven cost management by uncovering hidden cost drivers, optimizing decisions in real time, and modeling financial trade-offs across the supply chain.
Agentic AI is transforming supply chains from deterministic, rule-based systems into adaptive, insight-driven networks that prioritize real-time decision-making, root-cause analysis, and capital-efficient innovation.
Procurement is shifting from cost-driven spend aggregation to risk-adjusted sourcing strategies as tariffs, geopolitical volatility, and supply chain disruptions force companies to prioritize resilience over pure savings.
Monday, March 16, 2026 · Eva Ponce, Vi Duong and Nic Holwerda
Dynamic Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization enables supply chain leaders to balance service levels and working capital by optimizing inventory across the entire network rather than individual locations.
Procter & Gamble’s One Supply Chain strategy is an example of how aligning operations, forecasting, logistics, and supplier collaboration around the “Perfect Order” framework enables companies to deliver the right product, at the right time and cost, while turning…
True supply chain visibility in 2026 depends less on tracking shipments and more on synchronizing data across systems, ensuring a trusted single source of truth, and building AI-driven decision tools on high-quality, interoperable freight data.
Despite shifting headlines in the freight market, cargo theft, fraudulent carriers, regulatory enforcement, and tightening capacity are quietly increasing transportation risk, making continuous carrier vetting, human oversight, and proactive risk management essential for…
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