Winning Tactics: Lessons from the Supply Chain Top 25

This is an excerpt of the original article. It was written for the September-October 2010 edition of Supply Chain Management Review. The full article is available to current subscribers.

September-October 2010

You’re the Top!” In addition to being a great Cole Porter song, it’s a sentiment all of us would like to hear both in our personal and professional lives. Let’s take the professional perspective here. Looking at things from a supply chain perspective in particular, just how do you get to be considered “the top”? You’re the Top!” In addition to being a great Cole Porter song, it’s a sentiment all of us would like to hear both in our personal and professional lives. Let’s take the professional perspective here. Looking at things from a supply chain perspective in particular, just how do you get to be considered “the top”?

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Since 2004, AMR Research has published a ranking of the world’s leading supply chains, drawing interest from practitioners, academics and publications around the world. We consider it a mark of the growing importance of the supply chain discipline that the Top 25 is referenced in publications in at least 19 different languages. For 2010, our latest ranking again identifies those big companies whose supply chains have come closest to an ideal we call the “Demand Driven Supply Network.” And while some of the names are new to the list this year, the principles that separate these leaders from the pack are still largely the same.

This article will describe the Top 25 for 2010 as well as the methodology used in the analysis. But its primary purpose is to elaborate on what tactics these leading companies demonstrate that allow them to excel.

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