All 2026 Conference Sessions

Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit 2026 dives deep into key topics for supply chain planning to help you address your organization’s mission-critical challenges.

Plan With Insight. Deliver With Impact.

In a rapidly evolving landscape, supply chain planning leaders must seize the moment. Join us to build future-ready teams, advance AI-driven and digital planning, elevate performance, and drive lasting agility and impact. The time to act is now.

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Monday, November 02, 2026

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM MST

Kinaxis: Close the Decision Gap
Nicole Moncada, Business Consultant, Kinaxis
Disruptions don't hurt your supply chain. Slow decisions do. While teams gather data, validate assumptions, and chase alignment, opportunities disappear and costs grow.

See how Kinaxis combines concurrent planning with AI agents that help planners anticipate change, evaluate scenarios, and orchestrate decisions across the supply chain. Because competitive advantage doesn't come from seeing change first. It comes from acting on it first. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM MST

OMP: Merck Animal Health’s Journey to Rewiring Planning for Reliability, Agility and Trust
Katie Dibernard, Director, Supply Chain Management, Merck Animal Health
Josh Dorman, Director, Business Technology Partner, Merck Animal Health
Merck Animal Health ran fragmented planning across Europe and the US, with standardization pulling against regional flexibility. This session covers the rebuild toward decision-centric planning, where demand and supply are connected in near real time, and planners work by exception. The harder shift was the operating model: technology alone did not transform planning. Behavior, trust, and decision ownership had to be earned. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:15 PM MST

Roundtable: Finding More Flow in the Operation You Already Have, moderated by SimWell
Jon Santavy, PARTNER, SimWell
Every fix to an operation starts with an assumption about what's limiting it. Add inventory, automation, trucks, or labor, and the local problem may improve while overall throughput doesn't. In this interactive peer discussion, supply chain leaders will share real decisions and examine how local operational fixes often shift bottlenecks elsewhere. Leave with three questions to ask before your next investment.
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03:15 PM - 03:45 PM MST

Planning: Social Media as an Emerging Trend to Predict and Shape Demand
Claudia Clemens, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The evolved role of social media and fast-changing customer preferences elevate the importance of tapping into digital consumer data to respond quickly and to predict and shape demand. This session will discuss emerging trends in planning driven by social media through real-life company examples of how planners harness the power of social media as new data streams to drive growth. ... Show More Show Less

03:15 PM - 03:35 PM MST

Supply Chain Network Design Market Guide
Vicky Forman, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Due to ongoing supply chain volatility and change, the ability to review the supply chain network design is required increasingly frequently. Technology is utilized to support these reviews in a structured and scalable way. This session assesses the supply chain network design tools market, and summarizes the applications, capabilities and trends for the future. ... Show More Show Less

06:10 PM - 06:30 PM MST

RELEX Solutions: RELEX Open: Supply Chain AI in Action
Rohit Tripathi, Vice President, Industry Strategy for CPG and Manufacturing, RELEX Solutions
RELEX Open live — come see the platform behind our latest supply chain AI capabilities, including our agentic AI capabilities tested against real planning scenarios. A session for supply chain and technology leaders who want a hands-on feel for what proven supply chain AI can do for them today. ... Show More Show Less
Tuesday, November 03, 2026

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM MST

Rethink Supply Chain Network Strategy to Win in an Age of Turbulence
Vicky Forman, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Supply chains are under pressure to reduce costs, improve service levels and support growth while operating in a turbulent world. Supply chain network realignment supports these conflicting objectives, but there is often a lack of confidence in making big network bets due to uncertain operating conditions. We explore how supply chain planning leaders can support CSCOs as they embrace uncertainty while making confident decisions about the supply chain to support business objectives. ... Show More Show Less

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM MST

Roundtable: Steal the Playbook: How Are Your Peers Integrating Scenario Planning Into Supply Chain Planning?
Mustapha Ezzeddine, Director Analyst, Gartner
Ready to move scenario planning from a slow, strategic task to a continuous, game-changing capability in supply chain planning? Transform scenario planning from a one-off, strategic chore to a continuous, integrated capability. Join this roundtable to share your insights and learn from peers who are making scenario planning a dynamic driver of smarter, faster decisions. Don’t just keep up — get ahead. ... Show More Show Less

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM MST

John Galt: From Navigating the Era of Agentic AI: Scaling from Insight to Action
Justin Siefert, Chief Marketing Officer, John Galt Solutions
AI is everywhere, yet for many supply chain teams it still feels like a black box. How do you move from experimentation to real, decision-driving impact? This session explores the strategic roadmap from basic automation to autonomous agents. Discover how a human-in-the-loop framework that augments planners to build resilience, accelerate decisions, and uncover greater value from existing data. ... Show More Show Less

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“Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit provided excellent insights into the latest planning trends and technologies. The mix of [insights], case studies and analyst one-on-one sessions offered real value and actionable take-aways.”

Artem Movchan
Head of Supply Chain Planning, Autodoc

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