The winners of Gartner’s Power of the Profession Supply Chain Awards have been revealed. The awards recognise outstanding supply chain projects that improve communities and the environment while also benefiting enterprises, communities, stakeholders, and customers. Customer or patient innovation, process or technological innovation, societal impact, and individual breakthrough are the four categories for the awards. For their contribution “Real Time Visibility Enabling a Sentient Supply Chain,” Microsoft Corporation was named Supply Chain Breakthrough of the Year. Together with the Vodafone Foundation, the Vodacom Group pioneered the successful development of a vaccination cold storage and distribution system in Africa. With the construction of a specialised cold-chain logistics control tower solution to supervise operations, Vodacom utilised its own supply chain expertise to organise and track the successful delivery of equipment. To make safe healthcare more accessible from plant to patient, Zuellig Pharma created eZTracker, the first production-grade, end-to-end supply chain traceability solution powered by blockchain. Procter & Gamble created a one-of-a-kind equality and inclusion initiative to employ female shop-floor trainees in order to acknowledge them as “saksham” and encourage others in the future.

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