In this podcast, host Thomas O’Connor discusses Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Report: The Future of Supply Chain 2023 with its lead author and podcast guest Jennifer Loveland. They explore how most C-suites have returned to viewing supply chain as a cost center rather than a strategic partner.

Jennifer and Thomas dive deep into how supply chain leaders can combat this view by generating near-term and long-term competitive advantage through commercial innovation that enables customers to get their own jobs done outlining specific examples from Schneider Electric such as “factory-as-a-service”.

They introduce a reinvention strategy covering four key areas- commercial innovation, achieving sustainability outcomes, real-time decision execution and human-centric work design. Each reinvention provides a vision for where to innovate over the next five years to support growth, compete for scarce talent and meet speed and sustainability expectations. Excelling in these areas can help make you an equal strategic partner within the C-suite by pulling ahead of your peers.