Is it the same as National Supply Chain Day?

No. National Supply Chain Day falls on April 29 and is hosted by the media brand Supply Chain Now, while International Supply Chain Professionals Day falls on June 7.

Who created International Supply Chain Professionals Day?

e2open, a supply chain software company, announced it from Austin, Texas on June 7, 2022, saying it had partnered with National Today to establish the date.

June 7 was designated in the founding announcement as an annual date for the people who keep supply chains moving. No source located gives a reason for choosing that particular date.

International Supply Chain Professionals Day

Next celebratedMonday, June 7, 2027

The day thanks the inventory planners, customs officers and export managers who make things arrive. Its first came with a choir, outside the software company that named it, and doubled as that company's rebrand party.

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YEARLY DATEJune 7

OBSERVED INInternationally

CATEGORYCareers

SUBCATEGORYLogistics

ORIGIN

Corporate Initiative

FOUNDING ENTITY

E2open Parent Holdings, Inc.

FIRST OBSERVED

2022

“June 7 designated as annual day to celebrate the people who keep supply chains moving.

HOW THE HOLIDAY CAME TO BE

A software vendor and a holiday site set the date.

E2open Parent Holdings, a supply chain software company then listed on the New York Stock Exchange, announced from Austin, Texas on June 7, 2022 that it had partnered with National Today to establish the date as International Supply Chain Professionals Day. The release presented the day as recognition for workers who had absorbed two years of pandemic era supply disruption.

Read e2open's founding announcementvia e2open Parent Holdings

INTRO

The launch doubled as a corporate rebrand celebration

The first International Supply Chain Professionals Day arrived with a choir. e2open's release said local singers would bring a story of a connected supply chain to life at a pop-up near its Austin headquarters. The songwriter Tony Rogers was to provide the music.

The announcement behind that event says it marked two things at once: the new day, and a brand identity the company had unveiled the day before.

The roles it covers are specific. Trade coverage names inventory planners, customs officers and export managers, the people who make sure things arrive where they are meant to.

ORIGINS

International Supply Chain Professionals Day history

INTRODUCTION

The work this day honours went a long time without a name. In the late 1970s a Booz Allen Hamilton consultant named Keith Oliver was running a project for the electronics manufacturer Philips, and the idea he brought them was called Integrated Inventory Management.

It did not keep that name. By the time the concept left that engagement it was supply chain management. Booz Allen's own account credits feedback from the Philips team for the change, the trade press credits Oliver himself, and neither settles it.

CHAPTER 01

The phrase goes public

The term reached the wider world through a newspaper. Oliver discussed the concept in a Financial Times interview with the journalist Arnold Kransdorff, published on June 4, 1982.

He was not working alone. The team's first project ran from 1980 to 1982 in Switzerland under the business analyst Wolfgang Partsch, and the term appeared in print that year in the German magazine Wirtschaftswoche.

CHAPTER 02

A software company claims the date

The observance is far younger than the phrase, and it came straight out of the pandemic. The 2022 announcement presented the day as recognition for people who had spent two years absorbing shutdowns, port congestion and shortages.

No government or trade body was involved. A software company named the day, in its own newsroom, on the morning of the first one.

CHAPTER 03

The founder stops being independent

The company behind the day did not stay independent. WiseTech Global, the Sydney developer of the logistics software CargoWise, completed its acquisition of e2open on August 3, 2025, at an enterprise value of $2.1 billion.

The day was not part of that transaction. Trade coverage of it continued into 2025, and no source located names an organisation that runs it now.

The past two years have put the supply chain industry in the spotlight.

Kari JanavitzChief marketing officer at e2open in 2022

Supply chain management requires an underlying strategic focus, along with the involvement and commitment of top management.

Keith Oliver and Michael D. WebberBooz Allen Hamilton vice presidents, 1982

WHY THIS DAY MATTERS

Why International Supply Chain Professionals Day Matters

VOLATILITY

Trade policy changed on average every 1.5 weeks in 2025.

The 2026 State of Logistics Report found that in 2025 trade policy changed on average every 1.5 weeks. It calls tariff complexity a permanent operating variable rather than a passing shock.

DEMAND

The field is projected to keep growing

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment of logisticians to grow 18 percent from 2025 to 2035, much faster than the average for all occupations. It projects about 26,600 openings a year on average across that decade.

RECOGNITION

Employers use the date to name names

For June 7, 2026, Comprehensive Logistics, DQS Solutions & Staffing and McLaren Transport named 17 recipients of a Supply Chain Excellence Award. The three firms share a parent company, AXVOR, and ran the award themselves.

BY THE NUMBERS

International Supply Chain Professionals Day by the Numbers

~255,100: US logistician jobs in 2025
14%: US logisticians in federal government
11%: US logisticians in transportation and warehousing
7.8%: US business logistics costs, GDP share
~19%: US logistics GDP share in 1979

GET INVOLVED

How to Observe International Supply Chain Professionals Day

Read the announcement that created the day

The founding release is the first-hand record of how this day was set up. Go to the original rather than a summary of it.

CHECK

Check the official career profile before you switch

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics profile for logisticians sets out pay, typical entry education and an employment projection out to 2035. Read it before a career move rather than after.

NAME

Name the specific save when you thank someone

Point at one thing that actually happened, such as a shortage worked around or a shipment rerouted overnight. Write it down and send it to the person, not to a distribution list.

TRACE

Trace one object on your desk to its parts

Work out where the components were made, who moved them and how many borders they crossed. The exercise turns an abstract phrase into a route you can draw.

Follow this year's industry cost report

The State of Logistics Report is the annual read on what US logistics costs and where capacity is tight, and the trade press summarises its headline findings. One article covers cost, capacity and the year's main disruptions.

Test your knowledge

How well do you know International Supply Chain Professionals?

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What name did the concept behind supply chain management carry before it was renamed?

Answer

No. It is an unofficial observance and June 7 is a normal working day: a Federal Register search for the phrase returns no documents, and the United Nations list of international days carries no supply chain observance.

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Sources

How we know what’s on this page. References, not endorsements.

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Primary records

e2open2022-06-07

E2open Introduces Inaugural International Supply Chain Professionals Day

The founding release naming June 7, the partner and the Austin launch event.

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WiseTech Global2025-08-03

WiseTech Global completes strategic acquisition of e2open

The acquirer's announcement that e2open is no longer an independent company.

View source

US Bureau of Labor Statistics2025

Logisticians: Occupational Outlook Handbook

Official US employment, pay and ten year projections for logisticians.

View source

United Nations

List of International Days and Weeks

The UN's own register of designated observances, including 7 June.

View source

Federal Register

Document search: "International Supply Chain Professionals Day"

A full-text search of US federal documents for the day's exact name.

View source

Supply Chain Now

National Supply Chain Day

The separate April 29 observance, its founder and its annual livestream.

View source

DQS Solutions & Staffing2026-06

Celebrating Our Leaders With Supply Chain Professional Excellence Awards

Three logistics firms naming 17 award recipients for June 7, 2026.

View source

Additional coverage

Booz Allen Hamilton

Keith Oliver and the Birth of Supply Chain Management

The consultancy's account of the Philips work and the term's first name.

View source

Supply Chain Digital2022-11-03

Keith Oliver - the man who gave us 'supply chain management'

Dates the 1982 Financial Times interview and names the wider project team.

View source

Supply Chain Digital2025-06-07

Why Celebrate International Supply Chain Professionals Day?

A day-of feature listing the roles the observance covers.

View source

Logistics Management2026-07-01

37th State of Logistics: Stronger through disruption

Headline findings on US logistics costs, GDP share and trade policy churn.

View source

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