100 Great Supply Chain Partners 2025: Who — or What — Is a ‘Partner’?

Technological developments of recent years, including AI, are increasingly challenging the assumption that only people can be partners. But what if you’re in danger of being “partnered” out of a job? In this issue, we showcase multiple examples where technology rolled its sleeves up and helped, right alongside essential human expertise. All of the relationships highlighted here are much more than transactional — they demonstrate a long-term commitment by supply chain partners to meeting ever-changing customer demands for efficiency, agility, responsiveness and resilience in highly uncertain times.