Trends in Structuring Supply Chain Analytics

In 2019, APQC conducted research on the implementation of analytics in supply chain and compared results to those gathered in 2016. A lot has changed for the better in three years: APQC found that many organizations have made great strides in their supply chain analytics efforts. For example, 78 percent of respondents to APQC’s 2019 survey agree or strongly agree that analytics is ingrained in how their organizations conduct business and manage performance—an increase from just under 60 percent in 2016. Faced with vast and ever-growing amounts of data, the number of supply chain leaders that actively turn to analytics for decision-making support is growing.