• The Gartner Supply Chain Podcast

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The Gartner Supply Chain Podcast

By: Gartner
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  • In the Gartner Supply Chain Podcast, leading experts Thomas O’Connor and Lindsay Azim regularly sit down with Gartner’s best thinkers, researchers and innovators to share with you the strategic insights and tactical tips supply chain leaders need to drive organizational success.
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Episodes
  • Adapting to Geopolitical Disruption at Johnson & Johnson
    Feb 20 2025

    This episode explores:

    • Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J’s) approach to growing geopolitical complexity. (1:11)
    • Key capabilities that enable J&J to work through these compounding challenges. (3:54)
    • Real-world examples of programs and capabilities J&J pursues to increase supply chain resilience. (7:23)
    • J&J’s responses to global shifts in the regulatory and legal environment surrounding supply chains. (11:34)
    • Recommendations for chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) leading in this turbulent geopolitical environment. (16:02)

    In this episode of the Supply Chain Podcast, host Thomas O’Connor discusses risk management and resilience with Kathy Wengel, executive vice president, chief technical operations and risk officer for Johnson & Johnson. Thomas and Kathy explore J&J’s pursuit of resilience in the face of today’s turbulent geopolitical climate, including some of its specific strategies and real-world examples of its evolving capabilities. The pair close the show with actionable guidance for CSCOs.

    About the Guest

    Kathryn E. Wengel (Kathy) is executive vice president, chief technical operations and risk officer for Johnson & Johnson, as well as a member of its Executive Committee. She has significant healthcare, operations and global business expertise – with more than three decades of experience in leadership positions at Johnson & Johnson. In her current role, Kathy leads key technical operations functions like engineering and property services, the office of sustainability and cross-sector supply chain teams, and critical risk functions like quality and compliance and healthcare compliance. Kathy also plays an important role with external stakeholders to advance critical risk management, resilience and technical operations priorities on behalf of Johnson & Johnson and the healthcare industry.

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    21 mins
  • Tariff Volatility and Supply Chain Uncertainty
    Feb 6 2025

    This episode explores:

    • Chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) and supply chain leaders’ initial reactions to new U.S. tariffs and the uncertainty surrounding them. (1:54)
    • Direct or indirect implications of the executive orders that supply chain leaders must account for. (3:22)
    • Differences and similarities in trade volatility between the prior Trump administration and the current Trump administration. (6:14)
    • How supply chains can respond to these tariffs, and what some organizations are already doing. (8:13)
    • Some of the factors influencing current approaches to scenario planning for the Trump administration tariffs. (12:30)

    In this episode of the Supply Chain Podcast, host Thomas O’Connor speaks with Gartner analysts Brian Whitlock and Suzie Petrusic about how the new U.S. administration’s tariffs stand to affect supply chain operations. In the show’s first half, Brian explores some of these tariffs’ particular details and their effects on potential mitigations. In the second half, Suzie expands on these mitigation strategies across the short and long term, as well as the influences behind them.

    If you wish to learn more about Gartner supply chain's research tied to the topic of tariff volatility Gartner clients can access "Use Tariff Volatility to Drive Competitive Advantage" while non-Gartner clients can access "Navigating Tariff Uncertainty: Pathways for CSCOs".

    About the Guests

    Brian Whitlock is a senior director research analyst in Gartner’s Logistics and Fulfillment team. He is responsible for advising logistics leaders and the C-suite in strategy design and execution, and for building capabilities that improve the performance of their logistics function. Brian is also the key initiative leader responsible for the research plan for Logistics and Fulfillment. Brian joined Gartner in 2020. He has over 30 years of experience leading global logistics, transportation and trade management organizations with expertise in strategy, operations, finance, procurement and supplier development and trade management.

    Suzie Petrusic, Ph.D., is the Gartner senior director analyst serving chief supply chain officers in all the areas of supply chain related to strategy leadership and execution. She has authored and co-authored research and case studies on topics such as risk, supply chain maturity, the future of the supply chain, customer enablement, supply chain constraints and inflation and recession. Suzie also leads Gartner’s research agenda for chief supply chain officers.

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    16 mins
  • Preparing for the Future of Supply Chain in 2025
    Jan 31 2025

    This episode explores:

    • Drivers that made this year’s Future of Supply Chain Report different. (1:04)
    • Capabilities CSCOs are pursuing to prepare for the future. (3:24)
    • The multiple pathways to success that organizations can take. (7:07)
    • How CSCOs can choose the best pathway for their organization. (15:16)
    • Advice for CSCOs preparing their supply chains for the future. (16:31)

    In this episode of the Supply Chain Podcast, host Lindsay Azim sits down with Pierfrancesco (Pier) Manenti, Gartner research vice president for supply chain strategy, to discuss Gartner’s yearly Future of Supply Chain Executive Report. As lead author of the report, Pier discusses how this year’s report — Supply Chain Executive Report: Future of Supply Chain 2025 — focuses on the capabilities chief supply chain officers can pursue to meet the future it outlines. Lindsay and Pier explore the various pathways organizations can take to build these capabilities before closing the show with recommendations for CSCOs pursuing those pathways.

    About the Guest

    Pierfrancesco (Pier) Manenti is research vice president for the Gartner supply chain strategy team. Pier provides insights and advisory support to chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) and heads of strategy of global manufacturing and retail corporations, especially with regards to future trends and key challenges affecting end-to-end supply chain strategy. He focuses on strategic transformation, digitalization, agility and design for profitability.

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    19 mins

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