In an ever-evolving world of constant uncertainty and disruptions, the ability to make intelligent decisions becomes the ultimate winning strategy for generating value. Supply Chain Planning leaders must elevate their role to be “decision shapers,” steering and driving the organization’s most critical business decisions. Join Supply Chain Now hosts Scott Luton and Jake Barr as they welcome Noha Samara, Senior Director Analyst with Gartner, for this special live conversation as a part of our new webinar series, “The Bridge: Connecting Leaders – Inspiring Change.” Join us for this first session and gain insights on how to be a more successful decision shaper and supply chain leader.

With macroeconomic conditions like inflation and changing consumer preferences, supply chain optimization and AI technologies are quickly evolving into margin multipliers that support business use cases that align planning with supply chain design. The rapid pace of business changes has made the design of supply chain networks a tactical and even operational activity in many organizations. Join us for this webinar with GAF and Coupa as we discuss: How Supply Chain Design based decision-making is making its way into various planning processes at organizations The types of decisions made through supply chain design, including strategic design choices, situational business decisions, and operational trade-offs How companies are building resilient supply chains to enable S&OP, inventory policy optimization, transportation spend optimization, and fulfillment model changes How companies can adopt Integrated Scenario Planning capabilities to drive decisions and accountability in a highly matrixed organization