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Gartner Power of the Profession™ Supply Chain Awards
Recognizing 2025 supply chain innovations with lasting impact
The Gartner Power of the Profession™ Supply Chain Awards are an annual community-driven recognition program that inspires supply chain transformation around the globe.
Complete the form to get lessons learned from the 2025 Supply Chain Award Winners — AB InBev, AstraZeneca, Boston Scientific Corporation and Danone.
2026 award eligibility and nomination process
The submission period for the 2026 program - our 12 annual - is open September 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025 (deadline extended). Learn more about the eligibility and submission process, including questions to answer and how to identify a breakthrough supply chain innovation.
About Gartner Power of the Profession™ Supply Chain Awards
The Gartner Power of the Profession™ Supply Chain Awards are an annual community-driven recognition program for breakthrough supply chain innovations that inspire supply chain transformation around the globe.
Key benefits:
- Showcase your supply chain leadership.
- Attract top supply chain talent to your organization.
- Advance the supply chain profession.
View the 2025 honorees
See the list of honorees for the 2025 Gartner Power of the Profession™ Supply Chain Awards.
Award categories
Customer or Patient Innovation of the Year
Achieve a positive, quantifiable impact on customer or patient loyalty through supply chain.
Social Impact of the Year
Achieve a positive, quantifiable impact on the community and/or the environment through supply chain.
Process or Technology Innovation of the Year
Achieve outstanding business performance via breakthrough supply chain innovation in process engineering or technology application.
People Breakthrough of the Year
Foster diversity on the supply chain team, create business value through supply chain, and/or develop capabilities across the value chain.
Our esteemed executive judges for 2025
Thank you to our senior-most supply chain leaders for participating as executive judges in Gartner’s Power of the Profession™ Supply Chain Awards (details subject to change; last update: October 2025).
Ana Corrales
Chief Operating Officer – Consumer Hardware
Google
Anand Lal
Group Vice President, Supply Chain Operations
Grainger
Ann Ackerson
Chief Supply Chain Officer
BAE Systems
Antoine Vanlaeys
Chief Operations Officer
L'Oreal
Arnd Huchzermeier
Chaired Professor of Production Management
WHU
Ben Brinker
President, Global Operations and Supply Chain
Cardinal Health
Bill Good
Vice President, Supply Chain
GE Appliances, a Haier Company
Carlos Ruiz
Executive Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer
Church & Dwight
Che Min (Jammi) Tu
SVP, Group Operations Officer
Lenovo
Chuck Graham
Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Operations
Cisco
Cliff Henson
Corporate Vice President Cloud Supply Chain & Provisioning
Microsoft
Colin Yankee
Executive Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer
Tractor Supply
Donato Giorgio
President, Global Supply Chain
Essity
Eric Seip
Senior Vice President, Global Operations, and Chief Supply Chain Officer
Ingredion
Erica Olson
Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain
Gilead
Ewan Andrew
President, Global Supply Chain & Procurement and Chief Sustainability Officer
Diageo
Flavio Torres
Executive Vice President and Global Supply Chain Officer
Kraft Heinz
Frank Sanders
Corporate Vice President, Global Supply Chain Operations
Intel
Greg Smith
Executive Vice President, Enterprise Operations
Medtronic
Halide Alagöz
Chief Product Officer
Ralph Lauren
Hani Friedman Bouganim
Executive Vice President Manufacturing, Quality and Supply Chain
Servier
Hans-Peter Gai
Chief Operating Officer
Südzucker
Hau Lee
The Thoma Professor of Operations, Information & Technology
Emeritus
Jackie Sturm
Former Corporate Vice President, Global Supply Chain Operations
Intel
Jason Reiman
Senior Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer
The Hershey Company
Jim Cafone
Senior Vice President Global Supply Chain
Pfizer
Jim Tobojka
Senior Vice President of Operations
TE Connectivity
John Church
Former Executive Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Special Advisor to EAB
General Mills
Josh Chou
Senior Vice President & Chief Supply Chain Officer
McCormick
Karin Shanahan
Executive Vice President, Global Product Development & Supply
BMS
Kathy Wengel
Executive Vice President, Chief Technical Operations and Risk Officer
Johnson & Johnson
Luc Reynart
Chief Product Supply Officer
Procter & Gamble
Luciano Sieber
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Colgate Palmolive
Maria Pia de Caro
Executive Vice President, Global Operations and Sustainability
Pernod Ricard
Marie Robinson
Former Executive Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer
Sysco
Mark Brosius
Chief Manufacturing & Supply Chain Officer
Intuitive Surgical
Meri Stevens
Chief Operations Officer
Kenvue
Morris Cohen
Co-Director, Fishman-Davidson Center for Service & Operations Management
Wharton University of Pennsylvania
Mourad Tamoud
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Schneider Electric
Namrata Patel
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Haleon
Nestor de Mattos
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Dow, Inc.
Nick Ashton
Executive Vice President and President Global Manufacturing and Supply
Zoetis
Patrick Collier
Senior Vice President, Global Manufacturing and Technical Operations
Alcon
Paul Gallagher
Chief Supply Chain Officer
General Mills
Peter Puype
Global Head of Supply Chain
Biogen
Phil Livingston
Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain
JTI
Renée Ure
Former Chief Operating Officer at Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group
Lenovo
Ricardo Ernst
Baratta Chair in Global Business, Professor of Operations & Global Logistics
Georgetown University
Rick Tallant
Executive Vice President Supply Chain and Contracting & Procurement
Shell
Rob McIntosh
Senior Vice President, Global Operations
Dell
Rob Montgomery
Executive Vice President, Supply Chain
Walmart U.S.
Rod West
Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain
Dollar General
Rodrigo Lance
Senior Vice President Global Supply Chain
Kellanova
Régine Villain
Senior Vice President, Chief Supply Chain & Support Services Officer
Ochsner Health
Sally Gilligan
Chief Supply Chain & Transformation Officer
Gap Inc.
Shawn Curran
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Under Armour
Stephen Higgs
Senior Vice President Global Operations
Sysco
Steve Downey
Chief Supply Chain and Patient Support Services Officer
Cleveland Clinic
Tamera Fenske
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Kimberly-Clark
Tarek Amine
Principal Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer
Bechtel
Venkatesh Alagirisamy
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Nike
Victor Shevtsov
Executive Vice President Supply Chain
Carlsberg Group
Viju Menon
Group President Global Quality & Operations
Stryker
Vikram Agarwal
Chief Operations Officer
Danone
Willem Uijen
Chief Business Operations & Supply Chain Officer
Unilever
Wim Appelo
Chief Operations Officer
Philips
Casting your vote for the Supply Chain Awards
Executive judges help to determine award winners. Supply chain leaders are eligible to be on the global executive judge panel (limited to one panelist per organization). Excluded from the panel are consultants, technology vendors, and public relations, marketing and finance professionals.
Gartner monitors the panel and reserves the right to accept or reject any offer to be a panelist.
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