Gardiner 11th annual global Supply Chain Top 25 Companies revealed..
The 11th annual global Supply Chain Top 25, identifying global supply chain leaders and highlighting their best practices for heads of supply chain and strategy organisations.
Key Findings of the 2015 Report were:
- Three key trends emerged among the leaders: bimodal supply chain strategies, increased customer intimacy and emerging digital business models.
- The top five include three from last year — Amazon, McDonald's and Unilever — one returning leader, Intel, and a newcomer to this elite group, Inditex.
- Apple and P&G are the two inaugural companies joining a new Masters category recognizing sustained leadership over the last 10 years.
- Three companies rejoined the list this year after a lengthy hiatus: L'Oréal, Toyota and Home Depot.
The Key Recommendations are:
- Tailor your supply chain capabilities and align them to support both growth and cost efficiency where they are needed most by the business.
- Make customer experience a first-tier metric in your supply chain organisation.
- Explore and adopt digital business capabilities in the areas best suited to your industry, business model and supply chain maturity level.
Stan Aronow, research vice president at Gartner said "in this edition of the Supply Chain Top 25, we have several long-time leaders with new lessons to share and a number of more recent entrants from the high-tech, consumer products, retail and industrial sectors."
Aronow says, “this year we are introducing a brand new category to highlight the accomplishments and capabilities of long-term leaders. We are, therefore, recognizing those companies that have consistently had top five composite scores for at least seven out of the last 10 years and placing them into a 'masters' category, separate from the overall Supply Chain Top 25 list. “In this the inaugural year for supply chain masters, we want to recognize two companies demonstrating sustained leadership: Apple and P&G." Aronow went on to say "both Apple and P&G have made major contributions to the supply chain profession over the years. P&G was one of the first to characterize and embed the concept of a consumer-driven supply chain, and Apple, defining the very notion of a "solution" supply chain, blazed new trails with its demand creation capabilities."
The top 25 companies listed by the report are as follows:
- Amazon
- McDonald's
- Unilever
- Intel
- Inditex
- Cisco Systems
- H&M
- Samsung Electronics
- Colgate-Palmolive
- Nike
- Coca-Cola
- Starbucks
- Walmart
- 3M
- PepsiCo
- Seagate Technology
- Nestlé
- Lenovo Group
- Qualcomm
- Kimberly-Clark
- Johnson & Johnson
- L'Oréal
- Cummins
- Toyota Motor
- Home Depot