Top 10 thought leaders in supply chain

Supply chain trends and technologies move fast. Following thought leaders on social media platforms like LinkedIn and X can prove to be a valuable resource for busy supply chain professionals. This article is designed to provide a curated list of top 10 thought leaders in the supply chain industry to help supply chain professionals keep up with supply chain trends.

Richard Wilding

Supply Chain Innovator | Professor | Past Chairman at CILT (UK) | Multi-Award winning thought leader | Top 10 Supply Chain Influencer

Richard is focused on introducing universal concepts and ideas including:

1. Basic concepts of supply chain management & its importance
2. Basic concepts about how volatility appears in supply chain management and how to establish the resilience for the supply chain
3. Providing sessions of supply chain management on LinkedIn

Lora Cecere

Founder at Supply Chain Insights

Lora is focused on researching the increasing volatility of supply chain and possible solutions including:

1. How digital transformation is able to help enterprises deal with increasing volatility
2. Importance of supply chain visibility and companies need more advanced tools for it
3. Emphasize the importance of advanced analytics tools

Sheri R. Hinish

Global Sustainability Services, Strategy, Innovation, Alliances Leader | Sustainable Supply Chains + Circularity | CSO, CPO, CSCO Advisor

Sheri is focused on very diverse topics she is talking about and provides content on Apple Podcasts including:

1. Demand-driven supply chain is more and more important
2. Logistics transparency & visibility
3. Supply chain revolution

Dr. Muddassir Ahmed

Supply Chain Maven | Founder & CEO SCMDOJO | Evangelist Baerbergh Adventure Capital & NUNNER Logistics

Dr. Muddassir is focused on Logistics & Transportation aspect of supply chain management topics including:

1. S&OP
2. Inventory & Warehouse management

Daniel Stanton

Mr. Supply Chain®

Daniel is focused on the basic education and concepts of supply chain management:

1. Supply chain resilience
2. Supply chain basic concepts

Martijn Lofvers

Founder & Chief Trend watcher of Supply Chain Media

Martijn is focused on the analyses of recent trends about interruptions and recommendations:

1. Recommendations for tools helping companies deal with interruptions
2. Interruptions speed up the process of increasing volatility

Dr. John Gattorna

Supply Chain Thought Leader - Strategy, Logistics, Transformation, Management, Author, Advisor, Academic, Educator

Dr John is focused on analysis of increasing volatility of supply chain and recommendations for it:

1. What a company should do about its structure for better fulfilling the demand
2. How to deal with volatility of supply chain from a non-technology perspective and a tech perspective

Adrian Gonzalez

President, Adelante SCM (Talking Logistics, Indago, & LL4T1DCure Team)

Adrian is focused on various topics including improvements for supply chain management from different angles including:

1. The stereotypes that exist around different generations in the workforce, and how these stereotypes may hinder supply chain management
2. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in supply chain management and the importance of understanding its capabilities and limitations

Steve Banker

Vice President, SCM at ARC Advisory Group

Steve is focused on talking about not only supply chain management in terms of logistics & transportation but also real-world examples, including:

1. How to improve your supply chain performance in terms of Logistics & Transportation
2. Amazon's innovative supply chain and logistics operations and how they have contributed to the company's success.

Kevin O'Marah

Supply Chain Research | ex-Amazon | Co-Founder Zero100 | Former GVP Gartner

Kevin is focused on analyses of great examples and insights in supply chain management including:

1. 2023 predictions of supply chain
2. Netflix’s Chaos Monkey and Supply Chain