Shippers evaluating third-party logistics providers must look beyond whether a 3PL simply “has EDI” and instead assess how its EDI infrastructure, outsourcing model, ASN capabilities, and…
Chief supply chain officers who move beyond consensus-building and instead act as assertive advocates by embedding supply chain expertise into financial and operational decisions are significantly…
AI-powered drone automation is helping warehouses reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve inventory accuracy, and lower operational waste, demonstrating how inventory management can become a…
Shippers evaluating third-party logistics providers must look beyond whether a 3PL simply “has EDI” and instead assess how its EDI infrastructure, outsourcing model, ASN capabilities, and operational integration directly impact retail compliance, fulfillment execution, and…
Monday, May 18, 2026 · Benjamin Jury, Director Analyst, Gartner Supply Chain
Chief supply chain officers who move beyond consensus-building and instead act as assertive advocates by embedding supply chain expertise into financial and operational decisions are significantly more likely to achieve sustained cost excellence amid rising inflation, energy…
Friday, May 15, 2026 · Kyungmin Kook and Elisa Ruiz Mugica
AI-powered drone automation is helping warehouses reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve inventory accuracy, and lower operational waste, demonstrating how inventory management can become a meaningful driver of supply chain sustainability.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is exposing how deeply modern supply chains depend on petroleum-based inputs, creating cascading disruptions across transportation, agriculture, plastics, chemicals, semiconductors, and global consumer markets.
Benchmark supply chains are shifting from internally driven planning to a Right-to-Left model synchronized with actual consumption. The result: lower inventory, stronger service, and measurable gains in total value.
Forecasting failures in supply chains persist not due to flawed analytics, but because of deeply embedded organizational culture, misaligned incentives, and fragmented planning processes that distort true demand signals.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 · Mel Mohamednur, Director Analyst, Gartner Supply Chain
Supply chain leaders must move beyond AI readiness to redesign talent, performance metrics, and workflows around human–AI collaboration to unlock real operational value.
Retail inventory inaccuracies are less about theft and more about outdated accounting methods like the retail inventory method that distort stock visibility, forecasting, and replenishment decisions.
Wednesday, April 1, 2026 · Huseyn Abdulla and Tom Goldsby
The 5Ps of returns management framework helps supply chain leaders reduce reverse logistics costs and improve customer loyalty by aligning people, policies, processes, products, and partners into a coordinated strategy.
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.
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.
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…
Pharmaceutical supply chains are among the most complex in the world, combining global sourcing dependencies, strict regulatory oversight, temperature-controlled logistics, and geopolitical and cybersecurity risks that make planning, manufacturing, and distribution far more…
Monday, March 2, 2026 · Dr. Sreedevi Rajagopalan and Tori Arnold
Scope 3 is not a firm-level problem. It is a system-level problem, and it requires system-level solutions.
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