SupplyChain360 launches London forum on the new value architecture of enterprise supply chains.
The value of supply chain is being redrawn.
For years, enterprise supply chains were judged largely through cost, service and efficiency. Those measures still matter. But they no longer capture the full role supply chain now plays inside large organisations.
Today, supply chain decisions influence growth, margin, working capital, resilience, customer promise, risk, control and the speed at which the business can respond to change. That makes supply chain less a support function and more one of the operating systems through which enterprise strategy becomes real.
That shift will be the focus of The New Value Architecture of Enterprise Supply Chains, a new SupplyChain360 breakfast forum taking place at The Soho Hotel, London, on Tuesday 6 October 2026.
The forum will bring together director level and above leaders across supply chain, logistics, warehouse, distribution and operations to examine how enterprise supply chains are being redesigned around strategy, customer promise and return.
The panel will feature Funda Tatlidil, Supply Chain Director UK and Nordics at BMI, Jayanta Chatterjee, Global Supply Chain Director at Castrol, Zoe Farrelly, VP Supply Chain UK and Ireland at PepsiCo, Jean Yves Chan, Supply Chain Transformation Director at Mattel, and Sumit Shekhar, Enterprise Supply Chain Lead at Mars.
The supply chain value question has changed
The old question was often whether the supply chain could deliver better performance.
The new question is more complex. What does the business now need the supply chain to enable?
The pressure is not simply to make the supply chain more efficient. Leaders are being asked to help the business stay reliable, competitive and responsive while navigating higher volatility, tighter cost discipline, more demanding service expectations and greater scrutiny on cash and control.
That changes the nature of supply chain leadership. The most important choices are no longer confined to individual functions. They sit across planning, sourcing, inventory, logistics and execution, and they shape how the business protects margin, serves customers and responds to change.
The panel will examine how large organisations are making those choices in practice, and what it takes to build an end to end supply chain that can support the next phase of the business.
Adam Scott, Editor at SupplyChain360, said:
“Supply chain leaders are under pressure to create value beyond traditional cost and service measures. The organisations making progress are not just improving individual functions. They are making clearer end to end choices about what the supply chain needs to enable for the business.
This forum is designed to bring that conversation into a practical senior setting. We want to examine how leaders are balancing reliability, competitiveness, resilience, working capital and customer promise, and what it takes to turn those choices into execution.”
From intent to execution
The forum will move from panel discussion into a roundtable session titled Turning Supply Chain Value Into Executable Choices.
The roundtable will focus on how leaders make supply chain choices practical inside the business. Participants will examine where the biggest decision pressures now sit, from planning and inventory to logistics, service, cost, resilience and control.
The discussion will look at how senior leaders are setting priorities, aligning functions and moving from intent to execution. It will focus on the conditions that make better choices possible, including clearer problem statements, decision rights, data, planning cadence, governance and cross functional ownership.
The event starts at 8.20am with breakfast.
Places are limited and will be allocated based on relevance to the discussion.
To register, visit https://supplychain360.io/events/supplychain360-forum/
