Apple staat in 2010 opnieuw op nummer 1 in de Supply Chain Top 25 van AMR Research. Procter & Gamble, Cisco, Wal-Mart en Dell volgen Apple in de top 25.
Kevin O’Marah, group vice president van AMR Research, over Apple:
“By embedding product and process innovation in supply chain operations and consciously managing and shaping demand from a customer, production and fulfillment standpoint, the companies included in our Top 25 are doing a lot more than just shipping. Twenty years ago, a typical product company had supply chain reporting to manufacturing, with responsibility mainly for inbound materials management and outbound shipping,” said Debra Hofman, research vice president at AMR Research. “New data shows that supply chain reports to manufacturing in only 6 percent of companies surveyed, while 61 percent have the head of supply chain reporting directly to the CEO, general manager or president of the business. It seems clear that supply chain has grown up and the business has taken notice.”
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Second-placed Procter & Gamble (P&G) is the only company to have been in AMR’s Supply Chain Top 25 for six years running, and it still commands tremendous respect among its peers, according to AMR Research. As one of the original pioneers of demand-driven principles in supply chain, P&G remains at the forefront of areas such as specialized production operations in emerging markets and has established new beachheads of leadership in other areas, including its use of innovation networks to tap external expertise for at least 50 percent of its new product ideas.
Cisco Systems has climbed steadily in AMR’s rankings for five straight years, moving up two slots to No. 3 this year, while five companies — Research In Motion (RIM), Amazon.com, McDonald’s, Microsoft and Inditex — joined the Top 25 for the first time in 2010.
“Many companies focus primarily on supply chain execution,” Ms. Hofman said. “With ever-increasing unpredictability of demand, leaders also focus on improving their ability to sense changes and patterns in their environment — changes in demand, design, supplier risk and more — earlier than their competition. In designing your own supply chain strategy, take a cue from the leaders: Work outside-in, starting with your customers and working your way back and around your network of trading partners to design a profitable response,” Mr. O’Marah said. “Remember that one size does not fit all, define how many supply chain types you have, and design a customized response for each.”
De top 25 van AMR voor 2010:
- Apple
- Procter & Gamble
- Cisco Systems
- Wal-Mart Stores
- Dell
- PepsiCo
- Samsung Electronics
- IBM
- Research In Motion
- Amazon.com
- McDonald’s
- Microsoft
- The Coca-Cola Company
- Johnson & Johnson
- Hewlett-Packard
- Nike
- Colgate-Palmolive
- Intel
- Nokia
- Tesco
- Unilever
- Lockheed Martin
- Inditex
- Best Buy
- Schlumberger
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