What are the best supply chains in the world?
The reality is there is no way to determine that, absent an incredibly detailed study of leading candidates that would even then lead to potentially dubious results and certainly be obsolete by the time the research was finished. Or, we could look at the Gartner top 25 supply chain list.
I spent a couple of days at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference two weeks week in Phoenix but left before the big dinner Wednesday night where the top 25 list is now unveiled each year.
The former AMR Research brilliantly came up with the top 25 idea in 2004. Gartner then acquired AMR in 2010. Over the last few years, the concept has been extended, so that we now have a “Next 25,” plus the top 25 healthcare, industrial, and consumer goods supply chains, etc.