The list includes publicly traded companies in the manufacturing, retail or distribution sectors with annual revenue of at least $12 billion.
To compile the list, Gartner developed a composite score for each company based on the opinions of Gartner analysts, voting results from a panel of supply chain professionals, corporate responsibility practices and various company metrics, including return on assets, inventory growth and revenue improvements.
Here are the 2017 rankings.
- Unilever
- McDonald’s
- Inditex
- Cisco Systems
- H&M
- Intel
- Nestlé
- Nike
- Colgate-Palmolive
- Starbucks
- PepsiCo
- 3M
- Johnson & Johnson
- The Coca-Cola Co.
- Nokia
- BASF
- Schneider Electric
- Walmart
- HP
- L’Oréal
- Kimberly-Clark
- BMW
- Diageo
- Lenovo
- Samsung Electronics
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