Key Takeaways from the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo - Americas

Mike Griswold is the Vice President of Research at Gartner, specializing in retail with a particular focus on forecasting and replenishment. He is responsible for Gartner’s annual Top 25 Supply Chain ranking and joins Supply Chain Now on a monthly basis to discuss the latest in retail supply chains from an analyst’s perspective. Gartner held their 2021 Americas Supply Chain Symposium/XPO in late October. The overarching theme was ‘People, Profit, and Planet.’ As the speakers shared, these core ideas are not just critical to companies and customers, they each provide opportunities for supply chains to make a measurable value contribution in the short term as well as into the future. In this episode, which was created as part of a Supply Chain Now livestream, Mike shares his key takeaways from the 2021 Americas Supply Chain Symposium/XPO with co-hosts Greg White and Scott Luton: • The idea of ‘people, profit and planet’ as shared by Gartner Analysts Dana Stiffler and Simon Bailey in the event keynote • Why organizations need to recognize the varied priorities of their customers/consumers and factor those into their planning and decision making • How companies can prepare themselves to achieve the transparency and make the commitments required to support their people and be accountable with regard to their environmental impact Additional Links & Resources: Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.com/program/supply-chain-now Subscribe to Supply Chain Now and all other Supply Chain Now programs: https://supplychainnow.com/subscribe (https://supplychainnow.com/subscribe) WEBINAR- Accelerating Innovation Through Collaboration: https://bit.ly/3CQhFRX (https://bit.ly/3CQhFRX) 2021 State of Supplier Diversity Report: https://info.cvmsolutions.com/download-the-2021-state-of-supplier-diversity-reports-2 (https://info.cvmsolutions.com/download-the-2021-state-of-supplier-diversity-reports-2) 2021 U.S. Bank Q3 Freight Payment Index: https://bit.ly/3pwmWKC (https://bit.ly/3pwmWKC) This episo