Welcome to 2026 — and welcome to Supply Chain Now. In this episode, we kick off the new year by welcoming new listeners and sharing how you can engage with one of the world’s most active supply chain communities.

We reflect on an incredible 2025, including our milestone of ranking in the top 1% of podcasts globally, and break down what makes Supply Chain Now unique — from three weekly podcast episodes to live streams, webinars, and conversations that bring supply chain professionals together from around the world.

Looking ahead, we tease what’s coming next in 2026, including new miniseries, fresh formats, and a continued focus on innovation, connection, and meaningful industry dialogue. Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning or you’re just discovering the show, this episode is your invitation to plug in, join the conversation, and help shape what’s next for the global supply chain community.

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1. Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.com
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3. Watch and listen to more Supply Chain Now episodes here: https://supplychainnow.com/program/supply-chain-now
4. Subscribe to Supply Chain Now on your favorite platform: https://supplychainnow.com/join
5. Work with us! Download Supply Chain Now’s NEW Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3XH6OVk
6. WEBINAR- 2026 Procurement Priorities: What’s Changing (and What You Need to Do First): https://bit.ly/3Yodf0Z
7. WEBINAR- Building the New Manufacturing Workforce: https://bit.ly/4iVb4vl
8. WEBINAR- Building the Foundation for Agentic AI in the Modern Supply Chain: https://bit.ly/4s634vN

This episode is hosted by Scott Luton and produced by Trisha Cordes, Joshua Miranda, and Amanda Luton. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/unveiling-future-supply-chain-primer-2026-1532

Welcome to Supply Chain now, the number one voice of Supply Chain.

Join us as we share critical news, key insights and real supply chain leadership from across the globe, one conversation at a time.

Hey, good morning, good afternoon, good evening wherever you may be.

Scott Luton with you here on Supply Chain Now.

Welcome to today's show, folks.

So for all the new folks out there, our team thought it'd be helpful to offer a primer of sorts on the Supply Chain now community and share some tips for all the many ways that folks can plug in and engage.

So I want to start this brief primer by looking at our podcast programming where you're probably listening to us here.

Our team is very grateful because according to the Listen Notes platform, Supply Chain now has been ranked in the top 1% in popularity globally amongst over 3.7 million podcasts will probably be over 4 million later this year across the industry.

And man, that is.

That's incredible.

My mind is blown.

We're very thankful for all of your support as we strive to inform, educate and hopefully entertain Supply Chain professionals everywhere.

We publish a new podcast episode on all the major platforms every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Now some folks may not know, we also publish to YouTube where we've seen a good bit of growth there over the last couple of years.

Now, on the supply chain now YouTube channel, you're going to find all of our in person event programming too.

We participated in over a dozen industry events and trade shows last year, from Manifest to Gartner to Promat to Sapix and many, many more.

You're going to see sub channels created for our interviews at each of these big shows.

You can go over there and see them now.

And we expect to be at a dozen or so industry shows this year as well.

So please, if you see us, come say hey.

And we've got a really cool project we're working on with the one and only Deborah Dole.

One that is focused on circularity and the re economy.

Plus we've got other creative initiatives that will be coming to fruition this year.

On Supply Chain now.

Now one more note about podcasts.

If you're interested in exploring the voices of our veterans and all the many issues, the wins, the challenges, you name it, and what some leaders in the veteran support space are doing, veterans themselves and big veteran advocates.

And be sure to find the Tango Tango podcast hosted by Lloyd Knight and get that wherever you get your podcast.

Lloyd and our team launched Tango Tango last year and it's been a hit thus far.

Now let's move from podcast, move over to live streams and webinars.

Now.

If you don't know, I usually host this weekly live stream that takes place on Mondays from 12 noon to 1pm Eastern Time and I'm usually joined by one of our incredible co hosts and oftentimes we feature guests that are doing big things across industry and it's almost always live.

We'd love for you to join us and share your take on on the variety of news topics and developments we cover across global business.

So again, you'll find that every Monday from 12 noon to 1pm Eastern Time and it streams on your favorite Supply Chain now social channel.

And then if you live in a different part of the world that where Eastern time isn't really convenient, well, we got you covered.

Now this year, speaking again of live stream and webinar programming, we're going to be continuing our Never Normal Live Stream series which focuses on elite senior supply chain leaders and how they are finding a more innovative and successful path forward through these incredibly disruptive times.

The first two installments of this series, well they created quite a stir.

We've heard a lot from our global fam on this Never Normal series, so get ready and stay tuned in for number three.

Coming up soon, we're also going to be continuing our almost monthly webinar series called the Bridge where our guests really challenge leadership norms and industry assumptions.

I really enjoy being a part of those conversations.

Plus, you're going to continue to see our spontaneous programming called Breaking News now which spontaneously streams across our social channels.

The good news is you can find a regularly updated schedule on our upcoming live streams and webinars over at supply chain now.com where then you're going to want to click on the upcoming Live Programming tab.

I tell you, our team really cranked out the content last year.

And you can bet on the same amount of opportunities for you to engage in this critical live programming so you can share your own take in the comments and we that's my favorite part of our live programming is the wonderful comments that we get from our dear friends across the globe.

All right, so again, check out supply chain now.com it's a new site.

It's one of the things we invested in last year.

We welcome your feedback what you'll find there at supply chain now.com but for the live programming, there's a easy upcoming Live programming tab.

You can keep your finger on the pulse of what we're up to there now.

Apart from our audio, video and streaming programming, a couple of additional things I'd like to share with you here today.

Our almost weekly newsletter called with that said, it goes out each and every weekend.

First via LinkedIn to our our subscribers to the newsletter there and then to our email subscribers.

It goes out a couple days later in every edition of with that said, you're going to find news, notes, tools, resources and a whole bunch more.

Plus we also include the live programming that we've got coming up in the week ahead right in that short look week ahead.

So it's a great almost weekly pulse check on some things we've got going on here.

Plus again, news and tools and resources perspectives that we hope you find helpful.

One final resource I want to call out today again, you'll find this over at the new website supplychain now.com it's our resource hub which rolled out a couple months ago.

This is a single library that's fast growing and it contains helpful blogs, white papers, ebooks and whole bunch more.

And we're going to be expanding that written library as we've gotten a lot of good feedback around that.

Again, the Resource Hub is an easy tab over at supply chain now.com so I'll wrap this brief episode here today on a couple of things.

Number one, I do hope this very brief and practical primer is helpful to our supply chain now global fan members old and new.

Two, you can count on us to continue to carry out our mission of informing and educating supply chain pros on what's going on across this beautiful but challenging industry of ours.

You can also count on us not to sit on our laurels.

We never sit on our hands around here.

We're continuing to invest in innovation and growth just like many of you are doing.

And third, on behalf of our entire team here, thank you for being a wonderful part of our journey.

We sure do appreciate all the feedback and the engagement and the ideas, the support, the constructive criticism, all of that.

Keep it coming.

We can't tell you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you enough.

So with all that said, you know how we usually close these out, we gotta take action.

2026, I know is going to be a great but challenging year for all of us.

Do good, give forward, be the change that's needed and we'll see you next time right back here on Supply Chain Now.

Thanks everybody.

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