Supply Chain Design & Resilience Survey

82% of supply chain leaders can't evaluate a major decision in days.

We surveyed 144 senior supply chain leaders on how fast they can move when the business must change. The gap between the fastest and the rest isn't company size; it's how they operate.

Cover of the research report “The Supply Chain You Have vs. The One You Need” by Optilogic and Supply Chain Media. A benchmark on the design and resilience gap — and what separates the leaders who move in days from the ones still waiting on an answer.

Disruption Isn't the Problem. Slow Answers Are.

Tariffs. Supplier failures. Trade fragmentation. These disruptions demand a confident answer, fast. Supply Chain Media and Optilogic surveyed supply chain leaders on how fast they can evaluate a major decision and what's slowing them down. We found a clear pattern in what the fastest companies do differently.

What the Study Reveals:

18% vs. 82%

Can evaluate a major decision in days vs. need a week or more.

Close to zero

Correlation between company size and decision speed.

67%

Still use spreadsheets for supply chain modeling.

79% vs. 30%

Continuous vs. project-based teams that can evaluate a scenario in two weeks.

16%

Spend more time on the network they'll need than the one they run today.

70%

Name data quality as a top modeling limitation.

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Download the full report to see:

What the fastest-moving organizations do differently, from operating model to tooling

Why executive ownership of design decisions is outpacing the tooling built to support it

Where leaders expect AI to deliver the most value, and why adoption still lags

82% of supply chain leaders can't evaluate a major decision in days.

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