The Gartner Supply Chain Podcast

Insights from Leaders in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25

Episode Summary

Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25 celebrates and shares practices from leading supply chain organizations to advance the field as a whole. This episode of the Supply Chain Podcast highlights how these top companies drive growth and manage risk through commercial innovation.

Episode Notes

An overview of Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25 ranking — what it measures and what the leading companies are doing differently than others: 

• New opportunities and how supply chain can respond to risk and drive commercial innovation and growth for its organization. (3:16)
• Stories of innovation from organizations in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 (5:51)
• The idea of collective progress and how supply chains in the Top 25 are driving it (09:37)
• How leading supply chains are transforming how they work to cope with challenges, such as employee burnout, high turnover and lower employee engagement (13:12)
• Recommendations for supply chain leaders who want to embody best practices of the Top 25 (18:24)

In this podcast, host Caroline Chumakov and Gartner VP analyst Simon Bailey discuss lessons and best practices from Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25. 

They explore how companies featured within the Top 25 drive growth and mitigate risks by seizing innovative opportunities, transforming their organizations and engaging in collaborative action across the supply chain landscape. This exploration includes specific examples from the pharmaceutical, retail and automotive industries. 

Caroline and Simon also recommend actions for supply chain leaders seeking to integrate these top companies’ practices into their own organizations, including how supply chain can drive business transformation and drive growth.