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Schneider Electric retained the #1 position, followed by Cisco Systems, Colgate-Palmolive, Microsoft, and Johnson & Johnson, in Gartner’s recently announced Global Supply Chain Top 25, which recognizes leading supply chain organizations and identifies the underlying trends that drove their performance. This year marks the 20th annual list, which often includes major international brands. New to this year’s list was NVIDIA, which made its debut in the seventh position. The Top 25 companies are overcoming challenges and obtaining supply chain excellence through several key strategies, according to Gartner analysts. To address workforce concerns, they consistently fund people-centric strategies to drive higher engagement from their workforce. When it comes to technology, the Top 25 supply chains are built on solid foundations in data and digital capabilities and they evaluate WHICH 25 SUPPLY CHAINS ARE TOPS?
both traditional (non-generative) AI techniques and GenAI to build practical use cases that benefit most from AI-driven advances. Additionally, chief supply chain officers and their teams at these top-performing companies embrace uncertainty, learn from it, and evolve toward an anti-fragile supply chain. Here are Gartner’s 25 picks:
14 NIKE 15 Intel 16 Siemens
1 Schneider Electric 2 Cisco Systems 3 Colgate-Palmolive 4 Microsoft 5 Johnson & Johnson
17 Nestlé 18 Inditex 19 Dell Technologies 20 Pfizer 21 HP 22 Danone 23 BMW 24 Heineken 25 JD.com
6 Diageo 7 NVIDIA 8 The Coca-Cola Company
9 Walmart 10 Lenovo 11 L’Oréal 12 AstraZeneca 13 PepsiCo
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