Schneider Electric again tops Gartner’s Top 25 Supply Chain rankings

Gartner released its 2026 Global Supply Chain Top 25 ranking, with Schneider Electric holding onto the top spot for the fourth straight year. NVIDIA finished second, while Walmart climbed 10 places to rank third.

The annual ranking recognizes companies that Gartner considers leaders in supply chain performance and leadership. Cisco Systems and AstraZeneca rounded out the top five, while Danone, Lenovo, L’Oréal, Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft completed the top 10.

“This year, leaders are differentiating themselves by building autonomous workforces, investing in network-centric strategies and orchestrating supply chains end-to-end across increasingly complex ecosystems,” said Laura Rainier, Senior Director Analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain practice. “Leading supply chains are embracing AI not simply to automate tasks, but to fundamentally redesign how work gets done between people and machines.”

Schneider Electric's top ranking comes as the company enters the final year of its three-year Impact Supply Chain transformation initiative. Gartner said the company has focused on integrating autonomous workforce capabilities and end-to-end resource orchestration across its operations while expanding its use of generative and agentic AI to support decision-making.

“Schneider Electric continues to demonstrate how organizations can balance bold transformation ambitions with disciplined execution,” said Rainier. “Its approach to AI-enabled orchestration, circularity, and workforce transformation exemplifies how supply chain leaders are preparing for the autonomous business era.”

The Gartner ranking also recognizes long-term performance through its Masters category. Companies must finish among the five highest composite scores for at least seven of the previous 10 years to earn and maintain that honor.

Amazon, Apple, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever retained their positions in the Masters category this year.

Three trends behind the rankings

Beyond the rankings, Gartner identified three themes shared by many of the Top 25 companies: autonomous workforce strategies, network-centric supply chain design, and end-to-end supply orchestration.

According to Gartner, leading companies are increasingly redesigning jobs around collaboration between employees and AI systems, while investing in training programs that prepare workers to manage and improve intelligent systems. The company also found that top performers are building more adaptable supply chain networks to respond to geopolitical uncertainty, tariff changes, climate disruptions, and supply shocks.

Gartner said the highest-ranked supply chains are also expanding planning and decision-making beyond their own organizations by collaborating more closely with suppliers and partners. Those efforts are helping companies gain better visibility into demand, inventory, and capacity while supporting long-term sustainability and circular supply chain goals.

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