In this podcast, host Thomas O’Connor and guest Suzie Petrusic explore the future of supply chain. This conversation draws on analysis of our Future of Supply Chain Survey of nearly 1,000 supply chain leaders. The ultimate determination: CSCOs must reinvent the supply chain in four substantial ways. These reinventions must focus on human-centric design, dynamic execution of real-time decisions, authentic achievement of sustainability and commercial innovation-driven growth.

The conversation highlights how a shift from a location-centric to a human-centric work design will address advances in technology, changes that come with different generations of workers and the global supply chain talent shortage expected over the next three to five years. The discussion offers a real-world example of how Siemens has leveraged citizen developers to accelerate automation.

Next the discussion explores how supply chains need to shift from operational excellence to driving commercial innovation and concludes by recommending what supply chain leaders should think about heading into the new year. 

In short, this is an opportunity for the supply chain not just to respond to the reinventions demanded of it, but an opportunity to drive the world to that reinvented future.

See Supply Chain Executive Report: The Future of Supply Chain 2022 for deeper and additional insights into the topics discussed during this podcast.