THERE ARE THREE key trends to Gartner ’ s latest rankings for global supply chain excellence : closer , customer-driven partner integration , further adoption of advanced analytics and a strong focus on corporate social responsibility .
Gartner ’ s Supply Chain Top 25 rankings comprise two main components : business performance and opinion . Business performance in the form of public financial and
CSR data provides a view into how companies have performed in the past , while the opinion component offers an eye to future potential and reflects leadership in the supply chain community . These two components are combined into a total composite score .
Here are the top 10 companies for 2016 , and what Gartner has to say about them :