Supply Chain Top 25: 2025 Updates and 2026 Input Invitation

In 2025, Gartner's Supply Chain Top 25 marks its 21st edition as we continue to celebrate the crucial role of supply chains, uplift the profession and share leader insights. Each year we review the way we arrive at the ranking, take onboard feedback and refresh the methodology.

So, let's discuss which companies get evaluated, what's staying the same, highlight one change for this year and look forward to the 2026 cycle too.

Which Companies Get Ranked?

Each year, we begin with companies from the Fortune Global 500 and Forbes Global 2000, narrowing them down to about 250 based on specific criteria. The criteria for 2025 remain the same:

• Revenue: Companies must report at least $15 billion in revenue, converted to U.S. dollars.
• Financial Data: We use public, audited financials from S&P Capital IQ, excluding most private companies and those without four years of data.
• Industry: We focus on manufacturing, retail and distribution, excluding extractive industries, those tied to volatile commodities and service-based industries (unless asset-heavy with $1 billion in inventory).
• Community Sentiment: Companies must meet peer and expert vote thresholds over five years. Experts review those excluded to determine if they should be reconsidered.
• ESG Threshold: Companies need an "S&P ESG Score" above a set threshold by October's end.

2025 Methodology Updates

In 2024, we focused on the ESG component and reviewed the trusted third parties that we used to determine points in this area. We simplified the number of ways to get to 10 points down to just one path and increased the points for ESG performance.

For 2025, we are making minimal changes to the Top 25 methodology. The weighting of components will stay identical to 2024, as outlined in the following figure.

The components themselves will all be calculated the same, with one exception. In the ESG component, we will change one point in the Social Performance area where we will replace the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index with a broader S&P ESG Social Score.

The S&P ESG Social Score, out of 100, evaluates Community Relations, Societal Healthcare, Customer Relations, Financial Inclusion, Human Capital, Human Rights, Labor Practices, Health & Safety and Privacy Protection. Points are allocated based on an average score threshold.

Getting Involved in 2025 and 2026

Take an Active Part in the Community Opinion

• Any company meeting the inclusion criteria can request to submit a Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain Research Information Packet (SCRIP) to make Gartner experts more aware of their latest initiatives. Companies that submit a SCRIP may also apply for the opportunity to conduct a one-hour virtual company briefing to share more information with the Gartner experts who are voting. The SCRIP submission window opens in November 2024 and the briefings can be scheduled from early January to 10 March 2025.

• Peer Panel: Supply chain professionals, excluding consultants and technology vendors, can apply to join the peer panel. We will assess each application to ensure we maintain a balanced representation across the globe and across industries, and that only one panelist per company gets to vote each year.

To learn more about the SCRIP and briefing process or to apply to become a peer panelist, email your name, position and company details to supplychaintop25@gartner.com.

Give Us Your Feedback for 2026

We're now seeking deeper community input for 2026 and beyond. We aim to balance stability and evolution with an incremental approach, ensuring year-over-year comparability and relevance as supply chains evolve. While we can't adopt every suggestion, we'll identify trends and incorporate those that help us gradually evolve the Top 25, maintaining its status as an equitable global ranking.

As we consider the way supply chains will evolve, we see a few shifts occurring:

• Enterprises are increasing looking outside their traditional value chains to a more ecosystem-based approach to capabilities and innovation.
• ESG reporting is moving from voluntary to mandatory.
• Technology shifts may enable us to interact with the community in different ways to gauge community opinion.

Over the next six months, we'll gather feedback to potentially update the methodology by mid-2025, providing companies with advance notice of changes. If you'd like to help shape the future methodology, please complete this Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 Methodology Community Survey. The survey will remain open from December 2024 to the end of February 2025.

And for fuller details on our Top 25 methodology, please see Top 25 2025 Methodology Changes and Invitation for Input for 2026 (subscription required).