AMR Research Identifies Best Supply Chain in 2008

AMR Research releases its Supply Chain Top 25 report, an annual ranking that highlights companies that display superior supply chain performance, capabilities and leadership. Various consumer goods companies ranked in the Top 25, including Procter & Gamble at No. 4, Anheuser-Busch at No.6, followed by PepsiCo at No. 7, The Coca-Cola Company at No. 13, Nike at No. 15 and Johnson & Johnson at No. 19. The entire list is as follows:

 1. Apple
 2. Nokia
 3. Dell
 4. Procter & Gamble
 5. IBM
 6. Wal-Mart Stores
 7. Toyota Motor
 8. Cisco Systems
 9. Samsung Electronics
 10. Anheuser-Busch
 11. PepsiCo
 12. Tesco
 13. The Coca-Cola Company
 14. Best Buy
 15. Nike
 16. SonyEricsson
 17. Walt Disney
 18. Hewlett-Packard
 19. Johnson & Johnson
 20. Schlumberger
 21. Texas Instruments
 22. Lockheed Martin
 23. Johnson Controls
 24. Royal Ahold
 25. Publix Super Markets

The analysis uses basic public data as a foundation-return on assets, inventory turns, and growth-and incorporates expert and peer assessments of the future supply chain potential of each company.

AMR Research's Supply Chain Top 25 consistently outperform in the market. Last year, the average total return of the companies ranked in the 2007 Supply Chain Top was 17.89 percent, compared with returns of 6.43 percent for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and 3.53 percent for the S&P 500.

"With companies such as Apple, Disney and Nike securing their ranks on the Supply Chain Top 25 this year, a new manufacturing model emerges," says Kevin O'Marah, chief strategist at AMR Research. "The old model, relying exclusively on products or services, is increasingly being replaced by a content economy that builds and delivers value with ideas."

If you are interested in receiving more information or a copy of the report, please visit http://www.amrresearch.com/supplychaintop25/.