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Reinventing Supply Chains 2030

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  • Insight
  • 9 minute read
  • December 13, 2024

Disruption is the New Normal

Our global supply chain study shows executives are reinventing supply chains from end to end to withstand geopolitical crises, climate change, technological advances and other disruptive threats. What are they doing exactly? And will it be enough?

Supply chain disruption has become the new normal. A cargo ship crashes into a bridge in Baltimore, closing a major port for months, while rebel attacks in the Red Sea could reroute trade for years. Supply chains face severe material, energy and talent shortages, growing ESG demands, evolving business models and competitive ecosystems, and of course, rapidly changing technologies. Disruption hasn’t disappeared post COVID-19; it’s diversified.

Our study shows some companies are overcoming disruptive trends by embracing wholesale transformation. Instead of tinkering around the edges, they are aggressively, and deliberately, reinventing supply chains from end to end to be more adaptable, sustainable and cognitive i.e., thinking systems that grow smarter and evolve. Essentially, they are reengineering supply chains to not just survive disruption but to thrive.

What is driving these major disruptive trends? How are companies coping? Specifically, what capabilities and technologies are they employing? And how do industry leaders - Supply Chain Champions - differ in their approaches? Our global study answers these questions and more.

8%

of companies’ supply chain Champions have successfully transformed to meet disruptive trends

51%

of all companies have transformation initiatives underway

16%

is the percentage amount Champions expect supply chain revenue to increase

“Continuous disruption is the new normal. Steps must be taken to reinvent entire value chains with adaptability, sustainability and cognition in mind. There are no shortcuts to staying competitive.”

Stefan Schrauf,Global Supply Chain and EMEA Operations Transformation Co-Leader, PwC Germany

Reinventing Supply Chains 2030

Authors

Stefan Schrauf
Stefan Schrauf

Operations and Supply Chain Europe, Partner, PwC Germany

Global Supply Chain and EMEA Operations Transformation Co-Leader, PwC Germany
Alistair Kett
Alistair Kett

Lead Partner, Supply Chain and Operations, PwC United Kingdom

EMEA Supply Chain and Operations Co-Leader, PwC United Kingdom
Judith Schneider
Judith Schneider

Partner, PwC Germany

To the study Reinventing Supply Chains

Towards an adaptable, sustainable and cognitive ecosystem

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