We should be ashamed of ourselves. Again.

The 2015 “Supply Chain Top 25” is out, published by Gartner, Inc., for the 11th straight year.  It's a pretty good list, and I do make a point of checking it out every year.

The top five-ranked organizations in 2015 include three who were in the Top 5 last year — Amazon, McDonald's, and Unilever are in the top three slots — joined by Intel and Inditex.

Take a moment to look at all of the names in the Top 25, and think about what you don’t see.

1. Amazon
2. McDonald's
3. Unilever
4. Intel
5. Inditex
6. Cisco Systems
7. H&M
8. Samsung Electronics
9. Colgate-Palmolive
10. Nike
11. The Coca Cola Co.
12. Starbucks
13. Walmart
14. 3M
15. PepsiCo
16. Seagate Technology
17. Nestlé
18. Lenovo Group
19. Qualcomm
20. Kimberly-Clark
21. Johnson & Johnson
22. L'Oréal
23. Cummins
24. Toyota
25. Home Depot

Year after year, I have the same question:  where are the Aerospace and Defense companies?  There isn’t single one on the list.  We used to see Lockheed Martin, but they disappeared years ago.  As military logisticians we have a mission to serve the warfighter, but we also have a duty to serve the taxpayer.

We can do better.  We are expected to do better.  We know how to do better.  So why aren't we doing better?

Click here to see last year’s blog on the Top 25.