Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage
solutions, today announced it has been named to the Gartner
Supply Chain Top 25 for 2015, published May 13, 2015. The rankings
are designed to recognize organizations for leadership and best practice
in global supply chain operations.
“Seagate is wholly focused on continuously improving the effectiveness
of our entire supply chain so we can meet the needs of our customers
while adapting to changes in global logistics and the macro economy,”
said Bob Legendre, senior vice president of supply chain management at
Seagate. “Our supply chain has become a valuable tool giving customers
added confidence in Seagate’s ability to provide a sustainable supply of
drives to their businesses. We are proud to be recognized alongside
other industry leaders on this prestigious list and feel this is
validation of our efforts to develop a world class supply chain.”
This is the second consecutive year that Seagate has ranked within the
Gartner Supply Chain Top 25, advancing from twentieth in 2014 to
sixteenth in 2015 as a result of the company’s continued re-engineering
of business practices and strengthening of supplier relationships.
Seagate’s supply chain improvement efforts have focused on metrics to
streamline and inform business operations which included developing a
supplier risk database benchmarked by customers and industry leaders to
gauge supplier health. An enhanced sales, inventory, operations and
planning process was also implemented to assure better visibility into
customer demands.
The Top 25 is selected from among 300 companies on the Fortune Global
500 and Global 2000 annual rankings. Assessment by a distinguished panel
of industry and supply chain analysts, and a peer panel of supply chain
professionals, are included in the scoring process that determines the
Top 25.
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About the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25
“The Supply Chain Top 25 rankings comprise two main components:
financial and opinion. Public financial data gives a view into how
companies have performed in the past, while the opinion component
provides an eye to potential and reflects future expected leadership, a
crucial characteristic. These two components are combined into a total
composite score.”
Gartner analysts “derive a master list of companies from a combination
of the Fortune Global 500 and the Forbes Global 2000. In an effort to
maintain the list of companies evaluated at a manageable level and in
recognition of the inflation and growth these larger companies have
experienced, we increased the general revenue threshold to $12 billion
this year.” Gartner “then pares the combined list down to the
manufacturing, retail and distribution sectors, thus eliminating certain
industries, such as financial services and insurance.”
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