Amazon ‘best-of-the-rest’ in Gartner Supply Chain Top 25
Amazon is ‘best-of-the-rest’ in the 11th Gartner annual Supply Chain Top 25, published May 14th, 2015. In addition to No. 1 Amazon, the Top 5 includes McDonald's and Unilever — one returning leader, Intel, and newcomer Inditex.
Three key trends emerge: bimodal supply chain strategies, increased customer intimacy and emerging digital business models. Apple and P&G were uplifted to a new ‘masters’ category, having made major contributions to the supply chain profession. P&G was one of the first to characterize and embed the concept of a consumer-driven supply chain, and Apple, defining the very notion of a ‘solution’ supply chain, blazed new trails with its demand creation capabilities.
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