6-Part On-Demand Series: Seize the Shift: Maximize Supply Chain Agility for the Future

Session 1: Scenario Analysis

Design a geopolitically elastic supply chain to adapt and drive growth.

Rated: 4.5 out of 5

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Business growth is a CEO’s top priority, but increasing geopolitical instability presents a significant challenge to companies’ growth prospects. To support their company’s growth targets, chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) are tasked with designing a geopolitically elastic supply chain that can effectively adapt and drive growth amid geopolitical tension. An elastic supply chain is the strategic practice of building a change-ready supply chain network that can stretch or contract supply in response to geopolitical risks as needed. Join this complimentary Gartner supply chain webinar, where a Gartner expert will share how CSCOs can design a geopolitically elastic supply chain to adapt and drive growth amid geopolitical risks. 

• Gain a unique strategic approach to navigating geopolitical tensions and driving growth

• Build an elastic supply chain by defining limits, evaluating benefits, and analyzing scenarios

• Discover common responses to geopolitical tensions and how leading organizations differ

Session 2: Digital Transformation Strategy

Strategize supply chain planning use cases that leverage GenAI technology.

Rated: 4.3 out of 5

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Though generative AI (GenAI) has emerged as a top-funded supply chain technology initiative, many organizations are still grappling with how to effectively strategize and prioritize supply chain planning use cases that leverage GenAI technology. This is understandable, as planning technology providers are currently navigating the initial phases of solution industrialization while simultaneously exploring additional use cases. As supply chain technology leaders assess the integration of GenAI into their planning processes, they must carefully balance the potential for advancements with the inherent risks of innovation. Join this complimentary Gartner webinar as a Gartner expert explores how supply chain technology leaders may determine the best supply chain GenAI use cases applicable to their organization. 

• Efficiently source, organize and evaluate GenAI proposals in an effective way

• Prioritize and focus team’s attention on the most promising GenAI use cases

• Champion the introduction of GenAI in your organization

Session 3: Global Supply Chain Operations

Track the disruptions and trends affecting your supply chain outcomes.

Rated: 4.5 out of 5

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Supply chain operating environments are complicated by any and all disruptions. Consequently, supply chain leaders look for approaches to keep track of disruptions and trends that can potentially affect their supply chain outcomes. Supply chain leaders must stay ahead with a data-driven view of the operating context for global supply chains. Join this complimentary Gartner supply chain webinar in which a Gartner explores how supply chain leaders can use the Gartner Monthly Supply Chain Alert Interactive Tool to review global data connecting materials, logistics and labor, and communicate with internal stakeholders. 

• Explore the Gartner Monthly Supply Chain Alert Interactive Tool

• Get expert analysis on supply chain implications and near-term risk events

• Examine example heat maps and stakeholder/board communications

Session 4: Supplier Management

Learn how to manage disruption and tailspend from supplier transitions.

Rated: 4.7 out of 5

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Continued global supply disruptions have caused supply bases to grow exponentially and sourcing and procurement leaders have been under immense pressure to secure supply however possible. This has resulted in a bloated supply base, redundancies, management challenges and long-tail spend. Join this complimentary Gartner supply chain webinar as a Gartner expert explores how to trim the supply base while ensuring supply continuity. Additionally, get insights on key frameworks used in identifying eligible suppliers, a checklist of critical tasks to decouple organizations and a tangible tool to ensure switching costs are minimized.

• Understand several methods to effectively manage your tailspend and determine the best course of action

• Learn the elements needed to completely disconnect your organization from the supplier’s organization

• Discover tools and techniques to ensure there is no impact to supply continuity

Session 5: Supply Chain Design

Explore how leading supply chains are scaling solutions amid resource constraints.

Rated: 4.7 out of 5

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The resources we rely on to make and move our products, including energy, talent, minerals and transportation capacity, are increasingly constrained. Visionary supply chains are assessing the potential risk of resource constraints and building strategies to address them. However, few supply chain leaders highlight the issue as a key focus. For example, only 28% of supply chain leaders responding to a Gartner Future of Supply Chain Survey cited “raw material availability due to geopolitical changes” as a key challenge in the next one to three years. Join this complimentary Gartner supply chain webinar as Gartner experts explore how leading supply chains are preparing to thrive in a resource-constrained world by motivating the enterprise to act, designing out resource constraints from products and supply chains and creating a marketplace that unlocks and scales solutions.

• Motivate the enterprise to invest and take action to address resource constraints

• Engage cross-functional leaders to make changes in product and supply chain design for outsized impact

• Overcome internal barriers to implementing and scaling innovative solutions

Session 6: Supply Chain-Led Growth

Learn how to drive greater profits from supply chain by embracing uncertainty.

Rated: 4.9 out of 5

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Most supply chain leaders expect uncertainty to remain heightened for the foreseeable future. The pandemic exposed many supply chains to new uncertainties that prevented them from sustaining supply. Many made significant investments in resiliency to try to survive these uncertainties, but what if they instead made investments to make the supply chain stronger and more profitable by embracing uncertainty? Antifragility, a newly defined concept for supply chain, can transform how supply chains perform in uncertain times to support a growth agenda. Join this free supply chain webinar in which a Gartner expert explores how antifragility can help you grow amid uncertainty, and what capabilities you need to reach an antifragile supply chain state.

• Understand the “coping with uncertainty” spectrum for supply chain 

• Explore antifragility and how it can enable supply chain growth amid uncertainty

• Identify the supply chain capabilities required for antifragility