LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — A common theme at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium here is that the people running a company’s supply chain are going to be rising in importance and moving from “the back of the house.”
That was the term used by Joanne Joliet, a vice president and analyst at Gartner, in her Signature Series address at the conference.
It is not surprising that attendees at a conference of almost 2,700 people involved in the supply chain are going to tell themselves that they’re going to...