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Leadership turmoil threatens supply chain resilience, notes Gartner survey


Businesses of all stripes continue to battle employee retention and turnover, but in the supply chain, it is particularly acute for a function that can define margin success for organizations.

A new survey from Gartner shows that more than half of supply chain executives say leadership turnover has “moderately to completely disrupted” their function’s ability to perform over the past three years.

In a global climate of rapid technological change and rising reliance on AI, this turbulence is shining a spotlight on the weaknesses of legacy supply chain leadership models and raising the stakes for companies that fail to develop a new generation of resilient, collaborative, and future-ready leaders.

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Brian Straight is the Editor in Chief of Supply Chain Management Review. He has covered trucking, logistics and the broader supply chain for more than 15 years. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children. He can be reached at [email protected], @TruckingTalk, on LinkedIn, or by phone at 774-440-3870.
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