Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2024

Gartner has once more released the results from its annual Global Supply Chain Top 25, identifying leading supply chain organizations, highlighting trends and sharing best practices.

Schneider Electric mantained the top position in the list this year after crowning the list in 2023, followed in second place by Cisco Systems for the scond year in a row. Colgate-Palmolive, Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson rounded out the top five positions, with PepsiCo dropping from the top 10 in 2024.

Some interesting moves over the years with companies joining the list and some others being relegated; in these links you can check how the ranking has evolved over the last few years:

2016

2018

2021

2023

Gartner continues to recognize sustained supply chain performance via the “Masters” category, introduced in 2015. To be considered Masters, companies must have attained top-five composite scores for at least seven out of the last 10 years (2024-2024). Amazon, Apple, P&G and Unilever all qualified for the category this year once more.

Gartner 2016 top 25 Supply Chain companies

A year on, Gartner, the leading information technology research and advisory company has presented the list with the top 25 supply chain companies.

If you have been following this blog, you already know that this is a recurrent topic every year for us, and you can find out more about the criteria followed by Gartner to come up with this ranking in previous posts here.

This year, the usual suspects top the table with P&G and Apple being awarded the "Masters category" that highlights the accomplishments and capabilities of long-term supply chain leaders in the top 25. To qualify for the Masters category companies need to be in the top 5 ranking for at least 7 out of the past 10 years, so quite an achievement for both companies, that are the undisputed leaders in supply chain currently.

After these two "monsters" of the supply chain, in 2016 the companies that made it to the top  5 are Unilever, McDonalds, Amazon, Intel and H&M with textil giant Inditex fishing on the verge of the top 5.

Not major changes this year in the top 25 from 2015, with the exception of the inclusion of Glaxo that moved up the latter from position 42 in 2015 to making the top 25 in 2016 (position 23). On the other hand, consistent top 25 companies like Cummins and Qualcom didn´t make it this year to the exclusive 25 best supply chain companies.

You can find the complete list in the Gartener website, clicking here.

I look forward to next years list and to see if any of the current top 5 companies can dethrone Apple and P&G from the top of the list!