The Future of Supply Chain Management
2021-2025:
Balancing Sustainability, Resilience and Cost

SCM leaders will face many challenges & opportunities in the next 5 years, balancing sustainability, resiliency, and cost well into the future.

The Future of Supply Chain Management

CAPS surveyed 150+ supply management leaders about the challenges, strategies, and goals they will need to focus on through 2025. In a collaborative effort with BCG, this report was created from the first analysis of the results. The report shares valuable insights on a host of important topics, including:

  • Supply chain market dynamics
  • Cost savings and efficiency
  • Risk and resilience
  • Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulations and initiatives
  • Supplier management
  • Supply chain operations
  • Human resources
  • Technology

CAPS Research is a B2B nonprofit research center at Arizona State University, serving supply management leaders at Fortune 1000 companies with profound discovery, executable strategies, and powerful connections to shape the future of the profession. All CAPS offerings are sales-free, bias-free, and practitioner-driven.

CAPS was established in 1986 at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University in partnership with Institute for Supply Management.

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