Representative Vendors The vendors listed in this Market Guide do not imply an exhaustive list. This section is intended to provide more understanding of the market and its offerings. Vendor Selection The supply chain consulting market has thousands of providers from the very large with thousands of supply chain consultants to the very small with a dozen consultants. There is no formal inclusion or exclusion criteria associated with being listed as a representative vendor or provider in a Market Guide. However, our Market Guide methodology restricts the number of representative vendors that can be included and profiled in our detailed Market Guides. As a result, analysts are forced to make choices as to which ones to list in each year’s Market Guide. In addition to the analyst’s judgment, we believe that rotating providers in and out so different providers — especially the smaller or specialized ones — can be profiled is important. See Note 1 for additional information about changes to the list of representative providers over the past several years. Strategy or operations: These providers tend to do more strategy, planning or operations projects. Similar to the industry focus, the other services in the provider’s portfolio influence whether the focus is more on strategy-oriented projects or operations-oriented projects. For example, a provider implementing supply chain planning applications is much more likely to offer supply chain strategy consulting services than operations consulting services. ■ Overall scope of services for supply chain strategy and digital supply chain strategy: For many specialists, the scope of services within supply chain strategy or digital supply chain strategy is narrower than that of the large global providers. In some cases, the scope only includes a specific function within supply chain (i.e., distribution). ■
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