Gartner Power of the Profession™ Supply Chain Awards 2025

Process or Technology Innovation of the Year

Achieving outstanding and quantifiable business performance thanks to a breakthrough supply chain innovation in process engineering or technology application.

AstraZeneca | The power of continuous manufacture is transforming the way AstraZeneca makes medicines, significantly accelerating the development and delivery of the new oral solid dose (OSD) product portfolio

Social Impact of the Year

Achieving a positive, quantifiable impact on the community and/or environment through supply chain.

Danone | Building a resilient supply chain: watershed preservation actions and local communities’ empowerment Indonesian showcase

People Breakthrough of the Year

Fostering diversity on the supply chain team, creating value for the business through supply chain, and/or developing capabilities across the value chain.

Boston Scientific Corporation | GROW - Boston Scientific’s Global Talent Development Program exclusively for Direct employees

Customer or Patient Innovation of the Year

Achieving a positive, quantifiable impact on customer or patient loyalty through supply chain.

AB InBev | Green Mining Initiative - Intelligent Reverse Logistics

Process or Technology Innovation of the Year

Achieving outstanding and quantifiable business performance thanks to a breakthrough supply chain innovation in process engineering or technology application.

• AstraZeneca | The power of continuous manufacture is transforming the way AstraZeneca makes medicines, significantly accelerating the development and delivery of the new oral solid dose (OSD) product portfolio
• Cisco Systems | Winning the Air Freight Game: Harnessing Data for Strategic Bidding
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise | ODM Quotation Tool Intelligence
• Johnson & Johnson | Transforming Supply Chain Configuration: Johnson & Johnson’s Digital Value Chain
• University of Maryland Medical System Corporation | Transforming Bill-Only Product Management in Healthcare Supply Chain

Social Impact of the Year

Achieving a positive, quantifiable impact on the community and/or environment through supply chain.

• Advocate Health | Advocate Health Center for Business Diversity and Entrepreneurship
• Danone | Building a resilient supply chain: watershed preservation actions and local communities’ empowerment Indonesian showcase
• Diageo | Sorghum: From Orphan crop to sustainable agricultural hero
• Nestlé | Nature by Ninho: Regenerative Agriculture with positive results in reduction of CO2 and water consumption
• Unilever | Leaving No One Behind – An inclusive deforestation free supply chain

People Breakthrough of the Year

Fostering diversity on the supply chain team, creating value for the business through supply chain, and/or developing capabilities across the value chain.

• Boston Scientific Corporation | GROW - Boston Scientific’s Global Talent Development Program exclusively for Direct employees
• Diageo | Project Rudisha - Shifting Entirely to a Returnable Glass Model
• L’Oréal | Unlocking the power of all generations: The L’Oréal For All Generations story
• Sanofi | Speed meets Science: McLaren and Sanofi Drive Peak Team Performance
• Unilever | Post-lighthouse era, how China Wall’s ice cream factory uplifts to next glory through a digitalized people development program

Customer or Patient Innovation of the Year

Achieving a positive, quantifiable impact on customer or patient loyalty through supply chain.

• AB InBev | Green Mining Initiative - Intelligent Reverse Logistics
• AstraZeneca | ‘HomeSupply’ - Making clinical trials more accessible through a life sciences-first, digitally integrated, direct-to-patient supply
• HP Inc. | Total Customer Experience Program: Transforming HP’s Supply Chain
• Lenovo | Lenovo’s AR Repair Service: Cutting Repair Times from Days to Minutes with a Tech-Driven, Accessible, and Sustainable Solution
• Schneider Electric | Hyper-personalized supply chain industrialized at scale: revolutionizing the machine builder supply chain by implementing a B2B omnichannel approach