ASSIGNMENT 1

PREPARED BY
ZAHID GULZAR
SHAHEED ZULFIQAR ALI BHUTTO UNIVERSITY
SUBJECT: OPERATIONAL PLANNING IN SCM
TEACHER: SIR ZOHAIR MOHSIN
GR#1735299
DATE: 13-10-17
 TOP 10 BEST SUPPLY CHAIN
COMPANIES
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 SUPPLY CHAIN LEADERS
There are different SUPPLY CHAIN companies in top rankings but listed below
are few of them according to Gartner

There are three key trends to Gartners latest rankings for global supply chain
excellence: closer, customer-driven partner integration, further adoption of
advanced analytics and a strong focus on corporate social responsibility.

Gartners Supply Chain Top 25 rankings comprise two main components: business
performance and opinion. Business performance in the form of public financial and
CSR data provides a view into how companies have performed in the past, while
the opinion component offers an eye to future potential and reflects leadership in
the supply chain community. These two components are combined into a total
composite score.

Here are the top 10 companies for 2017, and what Gartner has to say about them:

Nestl
Nestl
Nestl
Unilever
Unilever
Unilever
Unilever
Unilever

Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch CP giant, has steadily moved up the rankings over the
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past several years and is very well regarded by both the peer and analyst voting
panels due, in part, to its willingness to share best practices with the broader supply
chain community. The company is a role model when it comes to CSR and scored
a perfect 10 out of 10 on our new CSR component. Unilever says that it is
achieving zero waste through its "four R approach" reducing, reusing,
recovering or recycling and treating waste as a resource with alternate uses,

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 such as converting factory waste to building materials or composting food waste
from staff cafeterias. Longer term, it aspires to be "carbon-positive" by 2030. In
2015, it launched a Foundry Ideas platform to crowdsource innovations for
sustainable products as part of its "sustainable living" plan.

McDonalds

McDonalds

Overall, the McDonald's corporate supply chain team excels at orchestrating the
upstream supply network. It promotes and acts as the conduit between outsourced
vendors, suppliers, corporate stores and franchise partners. It uses council meetings
to collaborate with suppliers on new product innovation and technology, as well as
on plant safety. Base expectations with suppliers are managed through a standard
supplier performance index, but the differentiator is more cultural and behavioural,
as partners tend to put the McDonald's system first when sharing product and
process innovations and staffing support teams with top talent.

Amazon

Amazon, despite dropping down from number one last year, continues to be a
leader when it comes to innovation in its products and supply chain. It has sold
several million Echo voice-controlled home speakers that allow users to search the
internet for information, play music, complete online tasks and control other home
devices. It is not hard to see where this could become a popular means of
reordering common everyday products. Amazon's Prime Now same-day delivery
service has expanded to more than two dozen U.S. cities and London, and includes
delivery from local restaurants and stores in addition to company-owned
warehouses.
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Intel

The company is actively pursuing growth opportunities, as evidenced by its largest

ever acquisition of chipmaker Altera in 2015. Intel's next challenge is to drive

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 organic growth in new markets. Its supply chain group has proven to be a worthy
partner for growth in the past. Over the course of 2014, the team enabled an
entirely new ecosystem of China-based technology providers to support the ramp
up of new tablet products. The result exceeded the CEO's aggressive 40 million
unit shipment goal by 15 percent.

H&M
H&M

The Swedish fast-fashion retailer climbed two spots on a combination of extremely

strong three-year weighted average ROA (25.3 percent) and revenue growth (16.3
percent) and a nine out of 10 for CSR, reflecting its strong record in sustainability
and workers' rights. H&M was part of a recent coalition of top clothing companies
that called on governments to agree to a strong climate change deal based on
concerns that long-term climate effects could harm production of one if its major
inputs, cotton.

Inditex

Spain's leading fashion retail group best known for its Zara brand. Inditex posted
similar strong performances in three-year weighted average ROA (16.7 percent)
and revenue growth (11.2 percent) and scored nine of 10 for CSR. Inditex has set a
goal to run 100 percent eco-efficient stores by 2020. The new Zara flagship store in
Manhattan tracks sustainability measures across all of its processes and will
consume 30 percent less energy and 50 percent less water compared to a
conventional store.

Cisco

A key focus area for Cisco has been digitising the logistics function. This includes
connecting logistics to the broader supply chain with data, standards, automated
event management and machine agents. Cisco is also bringing new technologies to
bear in its warehouses, including augmented reality, telematics and video analytics.
This is part of a broader effort to digitize its supply chain. It is leveraging in-house
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Internet of Everything (IoE) technology to improve product quality, gain energy

efficiency in operations and reach universal order visibility.

Samsung Electronics

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 Samsungs supply chain team continues to focus on improving customer
collaboration and gaining insight into consumer behaviours through connected
devices. Samsung Electronics received high marks (nine of 10) on the new CSR
component. It recently received two awards for sustainability from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its use of sustainable materials in the
Samsung Galaxy S6 and its long-term commitment to the proper disposal and
recycling of e-waste in the United States.

The Coca-Cola Co

The food and beverage leader is driving growth through product innovations and
entering new markets and products, particularly in juices and waters. Supply chain,
in partnership with the business, is taking a value-based approach to product and
packaging portfolio management. The company continues to use its Freestyle
smart delivery systems to tailor supply chain solutions by market and segment. In
the US, it is a full-service dispensing machine that can offer a myriad of choices by
combining 100+ different sodas and juices, while in the UK, it is a table top format
focused more on juices. The company scored nine out of 10 for CSR and has set
out ambitious sustainability goals for 2020.

Nestl

The world's largest consumer food supply chain scored a perfect 10 out of 10 for
CSR, including a 99 out of 100 in the environmental dimension of the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index for its use of "zero-water" factories and conversion of bio-
waste into renewable energy. Nestl's supply chain has consistent priorities around
fresh product availability, customer collaboration, capital efficiency, data-driven
decision making, complexity management and people development.
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