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.
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.
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