Breaking the Black Box: Connected Planning in Supply Chain Operations
Recorded at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2025, Nulogy’s Christine Barnhart joins Scott W. Luton of Supply Chain Now on what it takes to digitize external manufacturing.
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Your plan stops at your four walls. Your supply chain doesn’t.
Many organizations still run external manufacturing on siloed systems and spreadsheets. Planning tools see what happens inside the company, then go dark once production moves to a contract manufacturer or co-packer.
In this featured session from the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium 2025, Christine Barnhart and Scott W. Luton talk through how supply chain leaders can break open the black box between internal planning tools and external partners, with real-world examples and advice on building trust and adoption across teams.
Ready to watch? Start the recording, or see how Nulogy Supplier Collaboration connects your planning system to real-time data from your external manufacturing network.
Meet the speakers
Christine Barnhart
Chief Industry & Ecosystem Officer
Nulogy
Scott W. Luton
Host
Supply Chain Now
Four things you'll learn
From a featured session at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2025.
Where planning tools fall short
Why traditional planning tools struggle in contract manufacturing environments.
Connected planning pays off
How connected planning improves responsiveness, resilience and traceability.
Real-world examples
What digitizing an external supply network looks like in practice.
Trust and adoption
How to build trust and drive adoption across cross-functional teams.
Frequently asked questions
1What does this session cover?
Recorded at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2025, Nulogy’s Christine Barnhart joins Scott W. Luton of Supply Chain Now on what it takes to digitize external manufacturing.
2Who is in this session?
Christine Barnhart, Chief Industry & Ecosystem Officer at Nulogy, with Scott W. Luton, host of Supply Chain Now.
3Where was this recorded?
At the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2025, as a featured Supply Chain Now session.
4Do I need to register to watch?
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5Where can I watch more?
Find more sessions in the Nulogy webinars and webcasts library.
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Connects your planning system to real-time capacity, inventory and production data from your co-packers and contract manufacturers.
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Talk to our team about planning against what’s actually happening across your external network.
- Capacity, inventory and production status from every co-packer and contract manufacturer, in real time
- Every order uses the same item and BOM data
- Supplier commitments flow straight into planning platforms like Kinaxis Maestro