{"id":74582,"date":"2026-07-11T07:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=74582"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:13:02","slug":"lenovo-recognized-in-gartner-supply-chain-top-25-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2026\/07\/11\/lenovo-recognized-in-gartner-supply-chain-top-25-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo recognized in Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lenovo has once again been ranked in the\u00a0Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2026<\/a>, achieving its highest-ever ranking at seventh globally.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 is a renowned annual ranking of the world\u2019s superior supply chains. Now in its 22nd year, the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 identifies, celebrates and profiles excellence in\u00a0supply chain management.\u00a0Supply chain teams use the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 to\u00a0benchmark performance,\u00a0transform operations\u00a0and\u00a0lead in the future.\u00a0<\/strong>Lenovo ranked eighth in 2025, 10th in 2024, and eighth in 2023.<\/p>\n

AI Builds Greater Supply Chain Resilience<\/strong><\/p>\n

Global supply chains have faced unprecedented disruption over the past 12 months, driven by tariffs, component shortages, and geopolitical tensions. Lenovo\u2019s strength amid these challenging circumstances has been its ability to build on its AI infrastructure behind its global supply chain, improving resilience, adaptability and execution at speed and scale.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, Lenovo has evolved its Supply Chain Intelligence \u201cdigital nervous system\u201d to develop iChain, a continuously learning orchestration system that coordinates thousands of suppliers and more than 30 manufacturing sites globally. iChain is delivering tangible results for Lenovo\u2019s supply chain operations, including 60% faster decision-making, near real-time disruption response, and a 90% automation of network simulations that reduces manual analysis from two to three weeks down to two to three hours.<\/p>\n

Lenovo remains committed to sustainability and continues to focus on future-proofing its operations by making the supply chain more resilient and intelligent.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Lenovo, we\u2019ve always considered our Global Supply Chain as a key pillar of our operational excellence,\u201d said Che Min Tu, Senior Vice President and Group Operations Officer, Lenovo. \u201cOver the past 12 months, the ability to respond quickly to disruption has become essential for every business. By fully integrating AI into our operations, we\u2019ve been able to meet our customer needs more quickly and respond to complex situations. We not only withstand disruption; we become stronger because of it. It\u2019s this approach that\u2019s helped Lenovo navigate changing market conditions, maintain a competitive advantage, and deliver its\u00a0strongest year in the company\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Resilience Delivers Measurable Business Results<\/strong><\/p>\n

This resilience is translating into business performance. Lenovo retained its number one position in global PC market share, with the gap to the second-ranked competitor widening to its largest level in 15 years.<\/p>\n

At the same time, integrating the Infrastructure Solutions Group supply chain into the broader global network has helped accelerate growth in Lenovo\u2019s infrastructure business, supporting record operating profit and margins.<\/p>\n

As global supply chains continue to grow more complex, Lenovo\u2019s model is evolving beyond the high-volume PC business, where a single device can include an average of 2,500 components, to meet hypergrowth demand for AI infrastructure, enterprise solutions, and next-generation workloads. This positions Lenovo to maintain leadership in the global supply chain landscape by scaling AI server manufacturing, expanding liquid-cooled server capacity, and strengthening its global-local manufacturing network.<\/p>\n

Lenovo\u2019s Global, Anti-Fragile Supply Chain Strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, Lenovo\u2019s supply chain spans more than 30 manufacturing sites in 10 markets across Asia Pacific, China, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, North America, and South America. Last year, Lenovo broke ground on a new manufacturing base in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Once operational, the advanced manufacturing facility will manufacture PCs, smartphones, and servers for the Middle East and Africa market, and will include a research and development center, talent enablement programs, and a customer experience center. Lenovo is committed to supporting the creation of thousands of local jobs, enabling knowledge transfer, and driving long-term economic value creation in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

In addition, Lenovo\u2019s manufacturing site in Monterrey, Mexico, was recently recognized as one of 12 new additions to the\u00a0World Economic Forum\u2019s Global Lighthouse Network, a community of 201 leading manufacturers recognized for applying advanced technologies at scale. It is the second Lenovo site to receive this recognition, following the company\u2019s site in Hefei, China, which was\u00a0recognized in January 2023.<\/p>\n

In September 2025, Lenovo announced a major investment and job expansion at its U.S. manufacturing and fulfilment campus in Whitsett, North Carolina. The three\u2011building campus spans more than 800,000 square feet and employs approximately 1,100 people. The site supports server manufacturing, rack integration, and order fulfilment for customers across the United States.<\/p>\n

How are companies ranked in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Top 25 supply chain ranking is based on an equal weighting of business metrics and community opinion.<\/p>\n

Business metrics comprise financial and environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics. Financial metrics are based on a combination of three-year weighted return on physical assets (ROPA), ROPA change and revenue growth, plus inventory turns across the year. ESG data is derived from trusted third-party sources in the areas of commitment, transparency and performance across each area of ESG.<\/p>\n

Community opinion is based on the feedback of peer voters from the community and Gartner experts. Peer voters cast votes for their personal choice of the Top 25 supply chains. They base their decisions on perceived end-to-end supply chain maturity and leadership, specifically the supply chains that are run as strategic assets to deliver business and societal outcomes by partnering beyond their own organizations and that are thriving through uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supply chain teams use the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 to\u00a0benchmark performance,\u00a0transform operations\u00a0and\u00a0lead in the future.\u00a0Lenovo ranked eighth in 2025, 10th in 2024, and eighth in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":46413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[368,312],"class_list":["post-74582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-award","tag-lenovo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74583,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74582\/revisions\/74583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}