Bart De Muynck
- Supply Chain Thought Leader
- Former Gartner VP of Research
- Global Keynote Speaker
Speaker Fee 🛈
Fee Range
$20,000 - $30,000
Virtual Fee:
$10,000 - $15,000
Travels From
Texas
Bart de Muynck - Senior Advisor and past VP Research GARTNER
Ep. 37 - Supply Chain People + Process with Bart De Muynck
Balancing People and Technology: Bart DeMuynck on the Future of Supply Chain Leadership
Bart De Muynck Speaker Biography
Bart A. De Muynck is a globally recognized supply chain thought leader, advisor, and keynote speaker focused on helping organizations rethink how they design and operate modern supply chains.
He brings decades of experience at the intersection of strategy, technology, and execution, most notably serving as Vice President of Research at Gartner, where he led research initiatives across transportation, logistics, and supply chain technology.
During his tenure, Bart also served as Chair of the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium, one of the industry’s premier global events, shaping the agenda and guiding conversations among the world’s top supply chain executives.
Bart’s perspective is grounded in both research and real-world application. He has held leadership roles across the supply chain technology ecosystem, including his time with project44, where he helped advance innovation in real-time visibility and execution.
Today, as an independent advisor and founder of Better Supply Chains, Bart works with organizations to challenge legacy thinking and adopt more agile, connected, and forward-looking supply chain strategies.
Navigating the Great Reconfiguration: The N.O.W. and N.E.W. Mandate for 2026
The global supply chain has moved beyond temporary disruption into a permanent state of structural instability—the Great Reconfiguration. In this era of socio-economic disruption and geopolitical friction, traditional linear models have become liabilities, and agility is the only viable currency for survival.This session introduces the N.O.W. Philosophy and N.E.W. Technology Methodology, an architectural blueprint designed to transition organizations from reactive operators into autonomous orchestrators. Bart De Muynck will challenge the "not NOW" mindset—the catastrophic desire to wait for a "return to normal" that is never coming—and reveal why immediate transformation is a daily requirement for enterprise viability.
What Attendees Can Expect
-A Provocative Reality Check: An analysis of the "Inaction Tax" and the unbridgeable chasm forming between the 5% of "Leaders" embracing N.O.W. and the "Laggards" facing systemic paralysis.
-Architectural Deep-Dive: A breakdown of how to move from brittle, monolithic legacy systems to elastic, composable ecosystems that can pivot operations in hours rather than months.
-The Human-Machine Roadmap: Insight into the "Scribe-to-Steward" shift, demonstrating how AI should not replace people, but augment them to handle strategic trade-offs while machines handle high-transaction repetition.
-The 5% Strategy: Practical guidance on identifying the small fraction of initiatives—such as Tier-N visibility—that deliver 1,000%+ ROI.
Attendee Lessons & Takeaways
-The Three Pillars of N.O.W.: Master the application of Networked Intelligence (connected ecosystems), Orchestrated Agility (event-driven action), and Wide-Angle Visibility (eradicating Tier-N blind spots).
-The N.E.W. Standard for Tech: Understand why future-proof technology must be Network-Native, Event-Driven, and Wide-Angle to act as the "connective tissue" of the supply chain.
-Data Readiness as Governance: Learn how to bridge the "AI Data Readiness Gap" by establishing a "Clean Source of Truth" and mandating data normalization before AI deployment.
-Resilience as a Growth Strategy: Shift the organizational mindset to view risk not as a cost center, but as a proactive competitive advantage and a force for global good.
People at the Core: Unlocking Agility in the Post-Stability Era
In this session, Bart De Muynck will discuss the need to focus on people as they are key to the future of our organizations. While everyone talks about all the disruptions and looks at AI and other technologies as their savior, people are often overlooked.
PEOPLE unlock true agility: No technology will replace the people in supply chain. The job will not be automated—it will be augmented. Human expertise combined with artificial intelligence creates the resilient operations of tomorrow.
For AI and digital transformation projects to succeed, they must be supported by a deliberate Talent Augmentation Strategy that prioritizes training and empowerment. Creating a Culture of Innovation is key to success in an era where agility will be achieved by empowering people with intelligence.
