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The Gartner Supply
Chain Top 25
Discover the global supply chains that rank highest for supply chain excellence
Superior supply chains don’t just push products; they deliver on the business’s purpose. The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 is a renowned annual ranking of the world’s superior supply chains.
The 2026 eBook shares the list of the top global supply chains operating today based on business performance metrics and community opinion. Download the eBook for:
An up-close look at leading supply chains
Macro trends differentiating the leaders
Key initiatives to benchmark your supply chain transformation
3 success drivers among the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2026
Every year we research hundreds of supply chains to understand key priorities and investments. Three supply chain macro trends are accelerating capabilities at the best supply chain companies.
Autonomous Workforce
Network Centricity
Supply Orchestration
Reimagining supply chain work and roles for a human-machine future
As supply chains transform for the autonomous business era, chief supply chain officers are rethinking work and roles for a human-machine future; where people actively manage technology (i.e., work on it) and are augmented by it (or work with it).
An AI-native supply chain balances innovation, risk, and ROI. Previously hard-to-access data becomes available in real time. Decisions are made faster than ever thanks to tight coordination across internal and external partners. And – since AI agents are operating supply chain workflows – supply chain professionals are focused on strategic activities (like model training, audit, relationship management, and decision making.)
Building an AI-native supply chain requires CSCOs to move beyond outdated structures and reimagine decision-making, workflows, and technology. Instead of handing AI tools to employees at different levels and training them on how to use them, leverage the workforce as the actual architects of the new systems, and align learning and development pathways directly to the new workflows and roles. In fact, 22% of supply chain-centric organizations have already created new roles to orchestrate autonomous business operations or workflows.
Navigating geopolitical uncertainty with confident network design decisions
While chief supply chain officers transform for an autonomous future, they must navigate urgent supply chain challenges today.
Supply chain network design in turbulent times means absorbing disruption, diversifying risk, and pivoting infrastructure. In today's go-it-alone world, structural integration is no longer fit for purpose.
This moment demands supply chain network strategy transformation. Rather than building a single structure, build adaptable, resilient physical supply chain networks, which serve long-term business objectives such as growth. The ability to flex within the network as needed and continuously re-evaluate your footprint as conditions change is a vital competitive advantage.
Autonomous operations and advanced robotics are key enablers of network-centric strategies, overcoming the operational cost hurdles that have historically limited site locations in high-cost countries and regions. To sustain newly regionalized networks without inflating their structural costs, deploy physical automation to offset regional labor scarcity and high wage rates. Ultimately, by embedding robotics directly into physical network design, CSCOs can successfully execute agile, localized operations while protecting enterprise profitability.
Responding to supply constraints with deeper ecosystem collaboration
Chief supply chain officers struggle with supply chain management in a resource-constrained world; it’s harder than ever to secure scarce supply amid global tariff dynamics, energy disruption and the impacts of climate change.
Leading CSCOs are responding to supply constraints with end-to-end supply orchestration – a deep collaboration across the value chain to optimize resources.
Collaborative planning with trading partners helps to dampen demand volatility and right-size capacity. Integrating data from key customers and suppliers creates an end-to-end view of demand.
Upstream, CSCOs are utilizing multitier visibility to proactively secure critical inputs before shortages occur. Mapping suppliers enables the supply chain to sense disruptions and detect hidden sub-tier risks earlier. This in turn allows teams to trigger rapid mitigation actions, rather than reacting to constraints after the fact.
Leading CSCOs are also embedding sustainability and circular supply chain strategies directly into product design and material flows. By looking to waste as input, supply chains can capture more value from increasingly uncertain supply.
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The renowned ranking of the world’s superior supply chains is now in its 22nd year.
FAQ on the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25
What is the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25?
The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 is a renowned annual ranking of the world’s superior supply chains. Now in its 23rd year, the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 identifies, celebrates and profiles excellence in supply chain management. Supply chain teams use the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 to benchmark performance, transform operations and lead in the future.
How are companies ranked in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25?
A Top 25 supply chain ranking is based on an equal weighting of business metrics and community opinion.
Business metrics comprise financial and supply chain sustainability metrics. Financial metrics are based on a combination of three-year weighted return on physical assets (ROPA), ROPA change and revenue growth, plus inventory turns across the year. Sustainability data evaluates climate and ESG performance and is derived from trusted third-party sources, companies’ self-reported, assured greenhouse gas emissions reporting, and financial data sourced from Capital IQ.
Community opinion is based on the feedback of peer voters from the community and Gartner analysts. Peer voters cast votes for their personal choice of the Top 25 supply chains. They base their decisions on perceived end-to-end supply chain maturity and leadership, specifically the supply chains that are run as strategic assets to deliver business and societal outcomes by partnering beyond their own organizations and that are thriving through uncertainty.
Learn more on gartner.com about the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 methodology and how to participate in the community peer vote.
What benefits come from being in the supply chain rankings?
Ranking in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 is a point of pride and validation for the efforts of the supply chain team, as well as the company at large. The prestige that the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 carries helps elevate the role of supply chain in the business and promote its innovation and leadership capability. A Top 25 supply chain ranking serves as a lever to attract, engage and retain critical supply chain talent, and may even be used as a performance management incentive.
How can my supply chain improve its chances of being ranked?
Consistent with the purposes of the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 study, we believe that the sharing of best practices should be done through a transparent methodology that reflects a diversity of opinions. At a high level, the methodology combines financial performance and opinion data; the financials provide an objective basis on which to place community peer and Gartner analyst votes.
The two parts of the research process in which supply chain companies can proactively participate are as follows:
Companies can submit a Supply Chain Research Information Packet (SCRIP). The SCRIP is completed online and allows companies to provide more specific insights into their supply chain strategies, organizational span and influence; key initiatives; and impacts supply chain has had on the success of the business.
Companies can also conduct a one-hour virtual company briefing. A virtual company briefing serves as an opportunity for an interactive session with the Gartner analysts who are voting to discuss their supply chain initiatives in more detail.
The methodology for the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 is continuously evolving, growing in line with the supply chain profession. Following community input and analyst review, the 2027 methodology reflects changes to the supply chain sustainability criteria and the criteria to achieve Gartner’s Masters status.
Changes to the supply chain sustainability component of the methodology reflect a broader shift in supply chain sustainability strategies and regulatory requirements.
Three metrics are applied to evaluate supply chain sustainability performance:
- ESG performance (10%) is evaluated using the S&P ESG score, which evaluates performance on and management of material ESG risks, opportunities and impacts. Issues covered include key supply chain management issues, including human and labor rights, environmental impact, and climate risk.
- Climate action (5%) points are awarded if the company has set a near-term science based target validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.
- Climate outcomes (5%) evaluate a company’s ongoing performance and progress toward greenhouse gas emissions reduction, measured by Change in Scope 3 (Category 1) Greenhouse Gas Emissions Intensity.
Gartner’s Masters designation highlights sustained supply chain leadership. To reflect an accelerating business environment, the standards for entry into this elite group have evolved. Under the updated framework, organizations securing one of the five highest composite scores of all companies, including Masters, for at least five out of the last seven years qualify for the Masters distinction.
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