Inbound Logistics | July 2022

TAKEAWAYS

Gartner has released its Global Supply Chain Top 25 list and this year’s top spot goes to Cisco Systems for the third consecutive year. The firm was ranked tops largely as a result of its adaptability. Each year, Gartner researches the supply chains of hundreds of companies and scores them using a mix of quantitative (financials, ESG) and qualitative (community opinion) data. The top performers oer valuable lessons in supply chain excellence, including the value of developing self-stabilizing supply chains and creating supply chain ecosystems. “Cisco continues to adapt in various ways to the changing environment, and its supply chain moves in alignment,” notes Mike Griswold, vice president team manager with the Gartner Supply Chain practice. The Top 25 companies for 2022 are: 1 Cisco Systems SUPERIOR SUPPLY CHAINS

Exploring DEI in SCM Initiatives around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are gaining prominence across the business sphere in the United States. How does the supply chain sector compare? The industry still has a way to go, nds a new survey examining diversity and inclusion efforts released by the Association for Supply Chain Management and Gartner. The DEI efforts are more apparent and widespread in large public companies as compared to smaller, privately held rms. The survey of 384 supply chain professionals, conducted in December 2021 mostly in the United States, Canada, and Europe, includes the following results: • People of color (PoC) make up 35% of the supply chain workforce in publicly held companies, with 13% serving as vice presidents. • For professionals in privately held companies, only 7% of vice presidents are PoC. • 40% of supply chain organizations are working on DEI projects or initiatives. • 93% of respondents in large, global organizations report having DEI goals, compared to 27% of their peers in smaller organizations. • Recruitment, learning and development, and employee engagement are the types of DEI initiatives most often seen in supply chain organizations. More than 75% of respondents have those initiatives in place.

2 Schneider Electric 3 Colgate-Palmolive 4 Johnson & Johnson 5 PepsiCo 6 Pfizer 7 Intel

8 Nestlé 9 Lenovo 10 Microsoft 11 L’Oréal 12 The Coca-Cola Company 13 Nike 14 Walmart

PEOPLE OF COLOR IN SUPPLY CHAIN ORGANIZATIONS: PUBLICLY HELD COMPANIES HAVE STRONGER PIPELINES

15 HP Inc. 16 Diageo 17 Dell Technologies 18 Inditex 19 BMW 20 AbbVie 21 Siemens

50%

Private (n=199)

Public (n=160)

35%

30%

25%

19%

17%

16%

13%

11%

10%

7%

22 AstraZeneca 23 General Mills 24 British American Tobacco 25 Alibaba

0.8

0%

Total Full-Time Employees

Managers & Supervisors

Senior Managers

Directors

Vice Presidents

Source: Association for Supply Chain Management and Gartner survey

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