The Wall Street Journal recently provided a listing of companies that are best able to handle high and changing tariffs.
When the Drucker Institute began putting out its best-run companies list in 2017, it made sure that it included data on supply-chain management. The world, after all, was highly interconnected and risks such as weather events and geopolitical disruptions were growing fast. Little, though, did anybody foresee just how fraught with uncertainty this function would become—a reality that prompted Robert Handfield, executive director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative at North Carolina State University, to give these metrics a new moniker this year: the Tariff-Resilience Index.
To determine which companies are equipped to cope with the historically high and ever-changing tariffs promulgated by President Trump, Handfield and his team examined four dimensions of a company’s operations, rating each on a scale of 1 to 5: its purchasing management systems, its strategic sourcing capabilities, its breadth of supply-market intelligence and the degree of collaboration it has fostered throughout its supplier network. Those were then averaged into a final tariff-resilience score.
Find out who the winners are here.