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Three strategies to make supply chain roles easier to fill … and harder to walk away from

Tuesday, November 25, 2025 · Dana Stiffler, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Supply Chain
Supply chain leaders must redesign hard-to-fill roles with flexibility, purpose, and reduced friction to attract and retain talent in a competitive labor market.

Beyond reshoring: Nearshoring to Mexico

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 · Rosemary Coates
Nearshoring to Mexico is accelerating as manufacturers seek cost savings, proximity, and supply chain stability that reshoring to the U.S. has not delivered.

From global to hyperlocal: Lessons on building supply chains in your own backyard

Monday, November 17, 2025 · Inma Borrella and Jorge Requena
Companies are turning to local and hyperlocal supply chains to reduce risk, strengthen resilience, and better meet sustainability and customer expectations in an increasingly unstable global environment.

How AI can streamline peak season post-purchase logistics operations

Thursday, October 30, 2025 · Gartner Supply Chain
As online holiday orders surge, AI-enabled post-purchase solutions help retailers manage delivery visibility, deflect service calls, and enhance customer loyalty while easing operational strain.

Are you data-ready or in data-despair?

Monday, October 20, 2025 · Norman Katz
A study of 390 retail executives reveals that data readiness directly drives revenue performance, with data-ready companies reporting five times higher growth than their peers. Yet most retailers still struggle with siloed operations, legacy systems, and limited real-time…

Agentic AI in supply chain planning: Prepare now to unlock competitive advantage

Monday, September 22, 2025 · Jan Snoeckx, Director Analyst, Gartner Supply Chain
Agentic AI is reshaping supply chain planning, and although mainstream adoption may be several years away, learning how to prepare your systems, culture, and governance to capture competitive advantage from autonomous planning agents starts now.

Smarter, faster, leaner: Optimizing the end-to-end supply chain

Monday, September 15, 2025 · Dr. María Jesús Sáenz, Dr. Jaime Macías Aguayo, Javiera Arancibia and Fernanda Esparza
Companies can reduce planning delays and improve service levels by using a hybrid metaheuristic approach, achieving near-optimal solutions in minutes instead of hours.

Why supply chain cybersecurity still falls short and what leaders must do next

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 · Marisa Brown
Cybersecurity is vital for supply chains to execute effectively and maintain trust with partners and customers.

4 steps for CSCOs to emerge as digital leaders in supply chain

Friday, August 22, 2025 · Gartner Supply Chain
Gartner research outlines four critical steps chief supply chain officers must take to establish themselves as credible digital leaders, from setting a bold transformation vision to fostering collaboration and agility across the enterprise.

Closing the gaps in business tax collection

Monday, August 18, 2025 · Norman Katz
AI can help cities, counties and states collect taxes from businesses purposely trying to avoid compliance, lowering costs for all businesses in the process.

Reading the freight forecast: Making sense of the truckload market cycle

Friday, August 15, 2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New research defines a clear, four-phase framework for the U.S. truckload market cycle and develops forecasting models using spot and contract rates alongside macroeconomic and industry indicators, enabling stakeholders to better anticipate and respond to capacity-demand shifts.

Where does all the tariff money go?

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 · Rosemary Coates
To date, U.S. Customs has collected about $150 billion in tariff money, and by the end of 2025, the total is expected to be well over $300 billion. We import a startling amount of goods into the U.S., and all these goods are being taxed. But where does all that money go?

Strategies for supply chain derisking amid global uncertainty

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 · Gartner Supply Chain
CSCOs are rethinking global supply chain strategies—exploring divesting, decoupling, diversifying, and doubling down—to derisk operations amid growing geopolitical, regulatory, and financial uncertainty.

AI project success relies on people first and foremost

Monday, July 21, 2025 · Norman Katz
Only 26% of companies are achieving real value from AI—and according to a global BCG survey, the key to success isn’t algorithms, but prioritizing people and processes over technology alone.

Identifying major opportunity areas for procurement

Thursday, July 10, 2025 · University of Tennessee Global Supply Chain Institute
From optimizing structure and spend to enabling ESG and innovation, it’s time to rethink traditional roles and embrace collaborative, capability-driven strategies to unlock future-ready performance.
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