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Gartner® Report - Drive Resilience by Taking 3 Actions in Supply Chain Planning

In a landscape of frequent disruptions, achieving resilience and building antifragile supply chains require more than tactical actions. To develop robust, adaptive supply chains that grow stronger from challenges, supply chain leaders focus on three critical areas: change management, risk management, and technology adoption.


The reports key findings include:

  • Spreadsheets continue to be the predominant planning tool in organizations. They are, however, limited due to the manual work involved, the This Gartner® report Supply chain planning leaders have often focused on a single, precise plan. But employing just one plan makes it difficult to steer actions while disruptions are occurring.
  • Spreadsheets continue to be the predominant planning tool in organizations. They are, however, limited due to the manual work involved, the amount of data that can be used and the usage of static figures, which do not reflect today’s uncertain supply chain environment.
  • Risk, especially when related to planning, typically has been discussed and managed in an inconsistent way across the supply chain, resulting in poor reactions to uncertainty.

Access this Gartner® report we think, helps supply chain leaders learn how to develop a risk resilient, antifragile supply chains prepared to navigate and leverage disruption for growth.

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