Note 1: Representative Vendor History 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. This Market Guide has been published annually since 2016 and listed various providers during that time. To avoid any perception that a provider not listed this year but in prior years is somehow unqualified, we have provided a summary of some of the changes and any additional relevant commentary.
Summary of key changes to the list of representative providers:
Global strategy consulting firms: Bain & Company, Kearney and Proudfoot have supply chain consulting services that did not participate in the research this year. Alix Partner requested not to be included in prior versions of this Market Guide but also has supply chain services. Capgemini did not participate in the research this year. IBM did not participate in the research this year.
Abeam Consulting, BearingPoint and West Monroe have SC consulting services and have been in prior versions of this Market Guide as a representative vendor.
Global IT service providers: These providers primarily focus on the CIO and IT organizations but also have supply chain consulting services and many have been representative vendors in prior versions of this Market Guide. Some of those providers include Cognizant, HCL Technologies, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, and Wipro. Specialists that appeared in prior versions of this Market Guide but were acquired by other providers include Camelot Management Consultants, which was acquired by Accenture and Spinnaker SCA, which was acquired by Publicis Worldwide.
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