Winning Tactics: Lessons from the Supply Chain Top 25
This year’s edition of the Top 25 supply chains published by AMR Research, now part of Gartner, contains some familiar names and some new faces. But beyond the list itself, the most important learning for supply chain professionals is that certain tactics consistently define the leaders, regardless of industry or geography. These are the tactics that lead to operational and financial success.
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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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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Kevin O'Marah Having started work as a 17-year-old shipper/receiver for a small retail chain, Kevin O'Marah is a life-long student of supply chain. Most recently Kevin served as GVP for Supply Chain at Gartner following the 2009 acquisition of AMR Research where he was Chief Strategy Officer. Kevin's ten-year career at AMR included creation of the Supply Chain Top 25 and producing the Supply Chain Executive Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona from 2005-2011. Under the banner "Supply Chain Saves the World," Kevin published a well-received book and led a six-year dialog with supply chain leaders and such luminaries as Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Michael Eisner, and T. Boone Pickens.Subscribe to Supply Chain Management Review Magazine!
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