Supply Chain Innovation 2026: A Mandate for Creativity and Change
In the years ahead, every supply chain leader will be faced with the question: Will you innovate? Or will you be innovated?
The quotation harkens back to the golden age of Athens. “Just because you do not take an interest in politics,” the Greek statesman Pericles is reputed to have said, “doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.”
Now swap in the word “innovation” for “politics,” and you are fairly describing the plight of business today.
And, by association, global supply chains. Those that fail to innovate are in danger of being “innovated” out of existence. Artificial intelligence alone is mandating radical change throughout organizations: the way they design, make, and move product and, most notably, the role of humans in doing it.
More on that in a moment. First, let us mark another year of the Supply Chain Innovation Award, launched more than two decades ago by SupplyChainBrain and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals to honor stellar examples of creativity across industries, disciplines and business processes. Over that time, our judges have reviewed hundreds of submissions and honored a broad range of companies crafting solutions to supply chain challenges both old and new. This year’s winner is GOFO, a specialist in last-mile delivery whose intelligence platform called ATLAS created a single digital infrastructure combining order and transportation management, and which came to the rescue of 3PL ShipMonk when its core carrier ceased operations overnight.
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