The AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 is about leadership. Every year, we identify the companies that best exemplify the demand-driven ideal for today's supply chain. We also document the best practices that gain them the recognition and can help move all companies further along toward their demand-driven goals.
BASF and DuPont Chemical Industry Performance Leaders
Chemical companies get little recognition in the supply chain world. But BASF and DuPont were recently recognized in Fortune's list of most admired companies. Here's why.
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Case Studies of Supply Chain Leaders
- When Supply Chains Attack: Lessons Learned From Barnes & Noble’s eBook Reader Launch
- Lessons From the Top 25: Don’t Forget the ABCs of Supply Chain
- Intel: A Case Study in Supplier Risk Management
- Lessons in Quality From Coca-Cola
- Why Touch an Order? Bayer MaterialScience Knows Better
- The BlackBerry Supply Chain: A Move From Procurement to Partnership
- As the Recession Dipped the Market, Cisco Rose Above It
- ATK Mission Systems Executes Projects To Make Affordable Innovation a Reality
- Sustainable Sourcing: Wal-Mart Drives New Requirements
- United Technologies Displays Mastery of Council-Driven Management
Analysis and Insight into Supply Chain Best Practices
- The 2010 Retail Handbook for Becoming Demand Driven
- The Moment of Truth Now a Moving Target
- What’s the “Value” in the Healthcare Value Chain?
- Get Maximum Value From Product Development Investments
- Don’t Drain the Supply Chain Bank
- Tackling the Five Moments of Truth
- Don't Drown in Downstream Data, Use It To Make Money
- Recovery Strategies: Seven Ways To Sense Demand and Predict the Upturn
- Building a Demand-Driven Supply Chain Organization: Key Design Considerations
- How the Top 25 Supply Chains Stay on Top in Good Times and Bad
Industry-specific Analysis of the Supply Chain Top 25
Additional Views and Analysis of the Supply Chain Top 25
- The AMR Research Healthcare Top 25 for 2009
- Supply Chain Top 25: Connecting Supply Chain and Financial Performance
- The 2009 AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25: A Cash-to-Cash View
- The 2009 Supply Chain Top 25 Ranking: The Next 25
- Changes to the Supply Chain Top 25 Methodology: Our Ideas
- AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 Beats the Indices in Bear as Well as Bull Markets
AMR Research's Supply Chain Top 25 blows away market with 17.89% return
On January 10, 2007, Kevin O’Marah discussed record financial returns for AMR Research’s Supply Chain Top 25 on CNBC.
The AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 for 2009 Results
Winners, new arrivals, returners, and who may be missing in 2010. Kevin O'Marah talks with Bruce Richardson about the AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 for 2009.University of Alabama Research Study, Dr. Alex Ellinger
Impact of Supply Chain Management on Financial Performance
Listen to full podcastTime: 22:01
Listen to individual parts of the research study podcast
Overview
Describes the goals of the study
Time: 4:02
Description
Details how the study was conducted, defines an Altman Z score, and explores the use of the Delphi Method
Time: 7:19
Findings
Talks about the results of the study and what they mean
Time: 4:05
Financial Metrics
Discusses the gap between financial and management metrics and the use of activity-based costing to address it
Time: 4:39
What's Next
Summarizes the study and highlights the next step in the research: connecting supply chain management to revenue growth
Time: 2:10
Apple Reigns, Dell Returns: The 2008 Supply Chain Top 25
In this podcast, AMR Research CEO Tony Friscia and Chief Strategy Officer Kevin O’Marah discuss the standouts from The AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 for 2008.
