Procurement Magazine outlines the top 10 predictions shaping supply chains and procurement strategies in 2026. Descartes’ Jackson Wood weighs in on the forces driving change, from technology adoption to resilience planning, and what organizations should prioritize now.

Assessing 2025’s biggest storylines and what’s coming in 2026, Descartes’ Jackson Wood shares that risk and compliance wasn’t defined by a single enforcement action or a headline-grabbing policy change but by companies’ realization that the underlying structure of risk itself had changed—and that compliance programs built for yesterday’s linear supply chains simply will not get the job done in an era of more diffuse and broadly-networked risk.