Chief Supply Chain Officer Leadership Vision 2025

Execute a winning supply chain vision to deliver your top priorities.

Download the 2025 Chief Supply Chain Officer eBook

Prioritize 3 strategic actions to build your supply chain vision.

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Adapt your chief supply chain officer (CSCO) leadership vision to address key trends and challenges

CSCOs must continue to drive growth amid constant cost pressure and increased economic uncertainty, driven by geopolitical tensions and unexpected changes in regulations.

The Gartner Chief Supply Chain Officer Leadership Vision helps supply chain leaders inform their own organization’s supply chain vision and communicate relevant trends, challenges and necessary actions throughout the enterprise.

Download the 2025 Chief Supply Chain Officer Leadership Vision eBook to explore the 3 supply chain management practices that CSCOs must follow to:

  • Leverage complexity to deliver growth
  • Deliver on productivity expectation of AI
  • Neutralize root causes of business uncertainty

About the Chief Supply Chain Officer Leadership Vision eBook

Chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) must update their leadership vision to account for ongoing and as-yet-unimagined disruption to global networks.

A clearly defined supply chain vision aligns the function to the corporate vision and sets the context for resource allocation. It becomes an essential precursor to creating a supply chain strategy — describing the preferred future state of the supply chain organization and its long-term aspirations. A vision defines the performance outcomes and stakeholder experiences that will be created through the supply chain.

CSCOs can use this eBook to identify key elements to consider as they craft their leadership vision for the next few years.

Chief supply chain officer (CSCO) FAQs

What is the role of the chief supply chain officer?

The CSCO is primarily responsible for developing and executing the supply chain’s long-term strategic plan — ensuring it is appropriately future-focused, it’s successfully executed on, and that the metrics and processes used to measure and run the function are well-aligned.


What are the priorities of chief supply chain officers?

To meet the demands of this dynamic future, CSCOs and their teams are taking action to manage supply chain risk, meet climate goals, transform the supply chain for authentic sustainability, and profitably drive top-line growth through commercial innovation.


Why is strong leadership important in supply chain management?

Effective leadership in supply chain management enables a dynamic future, best-in-class approaches to delivering top-line growth sustainably, while navigating heightened risk. Strong supply chain leadership is essential to a successful supply chain transformation.