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Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit dives deep into key topics to help leaders uncover effective strategies and solutions for their organization’s mission-critical challenges.

2025 Conference Theme

Innovate to Elevate Performance: Defining the Future

Amid geopolitical tensions, rising costs and heightened uncertainty, supply chain planning leaders must embrace innovative strategies to realize growth ambitions, make the right decisions and intensify alignment across the E2E supply chain. Elevate your performance by embracing these processes and technology innovations, while investing in talent and improving cross-functional collaboration. 

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind.

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Monday, 03 November, 2025

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Autonomous Planning: Separating Hype from Reality
Pia Orup Lund, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session delves into the idea of automation within planning, and specifically what is feasible, or achievable, and what isn't really possible using modern technologies and methods. Emerging and established methods, leveraging machine learning, artificial intelligence and extended planning data sets can create near-term opportunities to improve planning productivity, but how much can truly be automated? Join this session to understand the state of the art, alongside emerging opportunities to improve planning decision making through automation. This session showcases advanced practices and explores high maturity content. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

The Far Future According to Maverick
Frank Buytendijk, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
A new presentation format, but an instant classic. What are Gartner's most Maverick and controversial predictions? Things that at first make you raise your eyebrows, but also make you think, "There might be something to it ..." Join this entertaining, energetic and 100% interactive session. This session showcases advanced practices and explores high maturity content. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Supply Chain Planning Leaders: Get Future-Ready
Brenda Westbrook, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
AI, access to data, geopolitical issues and talent scarcity will all impact the planning function, requiring more in terms of agility, resilience, and end-to-end visibility and collaboration. These drivers have significant implications for how we plan, as well as the roles and skills that will be required to deliver better outcomes. This session will focus on these requirements and how to achieve readiness. This session showcases advanced practices and explores high maturity content. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

The Silent Game-Changer: Elevating Supply Chain Planning Decisions With Pre-S&OP
Tessa Mahon, Director Analyst, Gartner
Pre-S&OP is often an overlooked piece of the S&OP puzzle, but if you do not have one yet; you are likely to be missing out! Join this session to learn how pre-S&OP can help bridge the gaps in your planning processes, driving more informed decision making, and elevate the S&OP process into a robust framework for achieving your business goals. ... Show More Show Less

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM GMT

Are You Setting Your Planning Team Up for Success?
Cristina Carvallo, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
With new processes and technologies being deployed, are you setting your team to succeed? To drive value from technology and succeed in this uncertain environment, supply chain planning leaders must: reorganize their teams, upskill their talent and create organizational support for change. This session showcases advanced practices and explores high maturity content. ... Show More Show Less

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM GMT

Lessons From Leaders — Supply Chain Planning Themes From Gartner's Top 25
Sarah Gilchrist, Director Analyst, Gartner
Join this breakout for key supply chain planning take-aways from this year's Gartner Top 25. Gain insights and inspiration on the strategies leading organizations are leveraging to drive planning transformation and elevate performance. This session showcases advanced practices and explores high maturity content. ... Show More Show Less

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM GMT

Scenario Planning 4.0: Experiment to Elevate!
Jan Snoeckx, Director Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations struggle with growing in maturity on scenario planning. SCP leaders can join this session to learn how experiment-driven can help them break through scenario limitations and how the concept will contribute beyond a typical S&OP scope. This session showcases advanced practices and explores high maturity content. ... Show More Show Less

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM GMT

Adopt the Right Metrics to Transform Inventory Performance
Tamer Abdelghany, Director Analyst, Gartner
Traditional inventory metrics, such as turns and days cover, will not drive or sustain inventory transformation. This session identifies three levels of inventory measurement that supply chain leaders must adopt to align with value, identify gaps and drive improvement. ... Show More Show Less

03:15 PM - 03:45 PM GMT

Lessons from CSCO Effectiveness
Claudia Clemens, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Gartner's Executive Report: Decoding CSCO effectiveness offers groundbreaking and quantifiable research on what makes CSCOs effective. Planning leaders can increase their own effectiveness by understanding what CSCOs care about and how to increase influence and alignment to drive overall business results. ... Show More Show Less

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“Really great and engaging experience. The keynote speakers brought a lot of energy. First time attending and will return soon.”

Emma Tatam
Head of Inventory, Logistics, Warehousing and Planning, Babcock

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