The 2014 supply Chain Top 25: leading the decade

Gartner recently published its 10th annual Supply Chain Top 25, a ranking of the world's leading supply chains. From the beginning, a primary objective of the Top 25 has been to foster the celebration and sharing of best practices and to raise the bar of performance for the broader supply chain community. Apple's supply chain strategy has always centered on orchestrating the delivery of winning customer solutions. Historically, this was through complete ownership of the design and control, but mixed ownership of the physical supply chain. Of late, it is investing billions of dollars in manufacturing tooling and equipment to ramp and automate production of its latest gear. McDonald's is focused on talent management, new product expertise, coordination across the supply chain, and high speed to market. Amazon continues to innovate in both products and services. Amazon is exploring taking over management of the last mile of delivery to customers in some markets. Unilever has pursued an ambitious vision for sustainable growth for the past few years that targets doubling its revenue at half the environmental footprint by 2020.