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Gartner Power of the Profession™ Supply Chain Awards 2026
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Winners
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.
Diageo | Diageo’s Spirits Intelligence Platform (SIP): Maximising the Value of Our Liquid Gold
Social Impact of the Year
Achieving a positive, quantifiable impact on the community and/or environment through supply chain.
Microsoft | Supply Chain for the Most Precious Resources on Earth
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.
Unilever | DigiOps: Reimagining Capability for the Age of Autonomous Operations
Customer or Patient Innovation of the Year
Achieving a positive, quantifiable impact on customer or patient loyalty through supply chain.
BMS | Delivering Hope: Bristol Myers Squibb Expands Access to Cutting-Edge CAR-T Therapies for Patients in Japan With Difficult-to-Treat Cancers
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Finalists
Gartner experts have shortlisted the finalists from entries submitted.
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.
- Diageo | Diageo’s Spirits Intelligence Platform (SIP): Maximising the Value of Our Liquid Gold
- GE Healthcare | From Spreadsheets to AI Agents: GE Healthcare's Digital Transformation’s Tariffs Story
- Knauf | Closing the Loop: The Story of Knauf’s Circular Supply Chain
- Lenovo | Digital Space + The Luban Agent: A New AI-Powered Way to Global Supply Chain
- Schneider Electric | Next-Gen All-Flexible Intelligent Manufacturing Solution
Social Impact of the Year
Achieving a positive, quantifiable impact on the community and/or environment through supply chain.
- Eli Lilly & Company | 30x30: Transforming Insulin Access Through Global Partnerships
- General Mills | Haagen Dazs Dairy Program Delivers
- Microsoft | Supply Chain for the Most Precious Resources on Earth
- Nestlé | Turning Waste Into Worth: NESCAFÉ®’s Circular Furniture Innovation
- Schneider Electric | Restoring Nature, One Site at a Time: Schneider’s Citizen Science for Biodiversity
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.
- Lenovo | Digital Organization: Scaling AI Talent and Transformation
- Micron | Cultivating a Self-Innovating Organization in the AI Era
- Pfizer | Pfizer Global Supply Chain Data Factory
- Smith+Nephew | Global Customer Care Transformation
- Unilever | DigiOps: Reimagining Capability for the Age of Autonomous Operations
Customer or Patient Innovation of the Year
Achieving a positive, quantifiable impact on customer or patient loyalty through supply chain.
- BMS | Delivering Hope: Bristol Myers Squibb Expands Access to Cutting-Edge CAR-T Therapies for Patients in Japan With Difficult-to-Treat Cancers
- Cisco Systems | Intelligent RMA Customer Experience
- General Mills | An AI Native Operating Model
- Haier Appliance Manufacture (Thailand) Company Limited | Utilize AI to Assist With After-Sales Maintenance for Global Users
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise | From Efficiency to Loyalty: How HPE Turned Operations into a Customer Experience Engine