Highlights
This was a distintive difference in this years rankings.
What is tiered by industry?
Some leading supply chains have reached a point in their transformation journeys where they consider themselves as this in the use of technology to enable more seamless CXs, and more automated and insightful decisions in supply and product management at scale.
What is “digital first”?
This is a newly added item to 2021 methodology that measures green, ethical practices.
What is environmental, social and governance (ESG)?
This is achieved through technology automation.
What is resilience?
This Life Sciences company had the highest composite score.
Who is Johnson & Johnson?
This is how the results were published this year.
What is Insights, Rankings, Methodology published separately?
Those further along in this type of journey are not simply supporting a varied list of green initiatives and/or people-related programs.
What is Purpose Driven?
The pandemic caused an uptick in this type of delivery.
What is direct direct to customers (DTC) and patients?
These are table stakes, but not differentiating.
What is technology?
This CPG company had the highest composite score.
Who is Colgate-Palmolive?
This is the purpose of the Top 25.
What is lessons from leaders?
What is raise the bar for all?
What is elevate the profession?
What is spark debate?
What is cross-pollinate ideas?
In the CP industry, many companies reduced this by a quarter to a third, in 2020, trimming long tails that had formed over several years of expansion.
What is portfolio SKU count(s)?
This type of "as-a-service" models and customer-composable solutions rose in prominence in industries such as high tech and industrial.
What is Business-To-Business (B2B)?
Leaders embrace emerging these types of approaches.
What are innovation and agile approaches?
This A&D company had the highest composite score.
Who is Lockheed Martin?
This many companies scored a perfect environmental, social and governance (ESG) score of 10.
What is thirteen?
This type of pandemic adaptation was used by most companies.
What is Customer Driven?
These are non-human technologies used for transformation.
What are Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML)?
This is what broadens.
What is span of control and influence?
This company had the highest inventory turns.
Who is Alibaba?
The number of new companies that joined the Top 25.
What is four?
In the past year this amount of companies accelerated digital roadmaps.
What is 70%?
Operating income / net property, plant, equipment and year-end inventory.
What is Return On Physical Assets (ROPA)?
Several advanced supply chain organizations run these to enable employees to better understand and exploit digital business opportunities.
What are digital literacy and dexterity programs?
This company had the highest ROPA.
Who is Cisco?