November 3 – 5, 2020 | Americas | Virtual
Navigating the Turns: Preparing Supply Chains to Think and Act Differently
Top performers defy conventional thinking during disruptions. The most successful companies take risks in “the turns,” which can be economic, geopolitical, environmental, social or competitive.
Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ 2020 provides supply chain leaders and executives with must-have insights, strategies and frameworks they can use to build agility and robustness into systems, processes and decision making.
Understand key supply chain trends during short- and long-term recovery and learn how peers are responding to risk as they develop resilient and agile strategies.
Invest in operating capabilities that deliver agility and competitive advantage. Discover how to engage business stakeholders in discussions about opportunities to shift investments during a turn.
Create a responsive supply chain organization to deliver exceptional customer experiences and persuade leadership that the need for talent does not switch on and off as economic cycles change.
The value of attending a Gartner conference is that you learn from our extensive research, leverage Gartner’s thousands of customer interactions and network with your industry colleagues. We offer advice and strategies upon which you and your team can build a pragmatic, agile and resilient path forward. Our program covers every role, starting with the CSCO and all of the critical roles reporting into his/her office. We also provide access to the leading vendors with whom you are likely partnering. The whole community comes together at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo.
Bart De Muynck
VP Analyst and Conference ChairOur virtual conference is the one place you can access research-backed sessions, get expert advice on your specific challenges and problem-solve with colleagues. Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ addresses the strategic needs of chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) and supply chain executives. The conference is designed for the following roles.
Actionable insights across four key focus areas
This track is for CSCOs and heads of supply chain strategy looking to find both inspiration and guidance in designing and planning for future trends and disruptions, and creating a supply chain strategy to navigate in the turns.
The Leadership and Governance track provides inspiration and how-to’s for those looking to lead, govern and mature their organization to the demand-driven value network leadership aspiration, and helps you to integrate the end-to-end supply chain to support growth, optimize costs and manage complexity in the digital age.
In an environment of political and economic uncertainty, fast and efficient decision making throughout sales and operations planning (S&OP) becomes more crucial than ever. This track offers insights for supply chain planning leaders on how to improve their process, organization, metrics and technology to further improve business performance in the turns.
Changing market dynamics are transforming the way procurement organizations interact with their internal customers and suppliers, forcing chief procurement officers (CPOs) to rethink their strategies for delivering business value. This track provides insights and frameworks to help CPOs deliver on their strategy, cost and talent objectives while creating new ways to add value to advance procurement’s strategic influence in the business.
Business models are changing dramatically, customer expectations are heightening, lead times are shortening, and revolutionary new technology capabilities continue to emerge. This track cuts through the hype and provides CSCOs and manufacturing leaders the tactics and practical ways to unlock manufacturing’s ability to create and deliver the next level of value.
The future of logistics and customer fulfillment strategy and operations will be shaped by quickly evolving digital imperatives, complex supply chain trading partner ecosystems and transformative customer demands. This track helps inform and guide logistics and customer fulfillment leaders as they navigate and operate within a state of rapid change to deliver capabilities and outcomes required to secure both current and future competitive advantage.
Strategic technology trends have the potential to drive significant disruption and deliver substantial opportunity. Supply chain IT leaders face the challenge of how to build the much-needed digital foundation. This track provides relevant, unbiased, practical insights and advice that inform decisions on technology acquisitions to advance in the digital journey.
Opportunities for value creation and stakeholder pressure are putting sustainability firmly on the agenda for supply chain professionals. This track provides insight into the sustainability strategies of tomorrow, where organizations shift their operating model to enable the circular economy, offering an advantage over competitors.
Increasingly, being competitive requires organizations to understand and adapt more quickly to their customers’ experience. This track informs and guides supply chain leaders in developing customer-centricity and designing solutions to enhance the customer experience.
Quality has never mattered more. New technologies have empowered customers to seek out and compare an endless array of products from around the globe. Building a strong quality image can not only help companies avoid the next round of viral consumer punishment, but can also lead to significant competitive advantage. This track explores how to build and sustain a strong culture of quality.
Retail and consumer products supply chains are in an evolutionary period where consumers are continually changing, with expanding expectations, including social and sustainability issues. This exchange has been developed for supply chain leaders in the retail and consumer products industry who are ready to respond to this challenging environment, building out core capabilities and complementing them with innovative new ways of working to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
Industrial manufacturing leaders are deploying advances in automation, analytics and visibility as capabilities across their businesses from planning to operations and logistics increase. This track is for supply chain leaders in the industrial manufacturing industry who are balancing innovation with fiscal discipline while driving deep transformations in their supply chain network.
High-tech leaders are deploying new capabilities across their supply chains and businesses to make better decisions faster, to keep up the clock speed of business. This track helps high-tech supply chain leaders who are not only looking at the increasingly challenging environment and trying to understand the risks, but also what opportunities it presents. Awareness of the macro trends strategies leaders are employing and ways to mitigate risks are key areas of focus.
Winning in the turns requires focusing on supply chain strategy, cost optimization and talent development for healthcare life science companies. This exchange provides healthcare provider, life science manufacturer, distributor and retail pharmacy supply chain leaders ways to build capabilities in innovation, collaboration and alignment to improve human health.
