Responses came from a wide variety of roles within the supply chain, both traditional operations-related positions, as well as some from supply chain IT.

There was also a wide mix of industries, but the top five were from consumer goods companies (19.3%), followed by automotive, industrial or aerospace (15.2%), transportation and logistics (9.6%), high tech/consumer electronics (8.1%), and retail (6.1%). Responses from many other industries, such as chemicals, medical devices, pharma/bio-tech, wholesalers, utilities and more, were obtained

Almost 58% of respondents were from the Americas, primarily the US, but more than 42% were from outside of Americas, split between the EMEA region (19.2% of the total population) and Asia-Pac (22.8%). This represents a more truly global respondent base than SCDigest typically has for its survey data.

There was also a nice split by size of companies. More than 44% of respondents were from companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenues, and that probably understates the mix a bit, as some respondents answered from a divisional or SBU perspective that might have smaller revenues but be part of a larger company that has much larger sales.