AMR Research, a leading research firm focused on the global supply chain and supporting technologies, released its Supply Chain Top 25 today, an annual ranking that highlights companies that display superior supply chain performance, capabilities, and leadership.

Since 1986, AMR Research has studied and fostered the revolution in supply chain as a professional discipline and as a competitive weapon for companies in the post-industrial economy.  The governing principle of this emerging discipline is something AMR Research calls demand driven, which was coined in 2003 by the company and means "global supply chains built to serve customers with both operations and innovation excellence."

The Supply Chain Top 25 identifies those Fortune Global 500 companies that have best demonstrated applying this principle of being demand driven. In up and down markets, the list of the Supply Chain Top 25 companies has repeatedly outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and NASDAQ. Last year’s list beat the markets by 6 to 10 percentage points.

The AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 for 2009 is:

1. Apple

2. Dell

3. Proctor & Gamble

4. IBM

5. Cisco Systems

6. Nokia

7. Wal-Mart Stores

8. Samsung Electronics

9. PepsiCo

10. Toyota Motor

11. Schlumberger

12. Johnson & Johnson

13. The Coca-Cola Company

14. Nike

15. Tesco

16. Walt Disney

17. Hewlett-Packard

18. Texas Instruments

19. Lockheed Martin

20. Colgate-Palmolive

21. Best Buy

22. Unilever

23. Publix Super Markets

24. Sony Ericsson

25. Intel

"Over the past five years, this report has chronicled the emergence of new ideas like the build-to-order model pioneered by Dell or the emergence of content-based value chains exemplified by Apple and Disney," said Kevin O’Marah, chief strategy officer at AMR Research. "While economic uncertainty slowed demand, companies on this year’s list used demand-driven principles to detect a troubled economy early and secure their cash positions well enough to maintain momentum on vital initiatives. 2010-2011 will show how such foresight pays dividends with greater supply chain agility and the ability to tackle competitors and deliver huge earnings in the climb out."

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