Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on Brick & Mortar Retail

Research Methodology
The source of information for this report is publicly available from corporate annual reports of brick & mortar retailers from the period of 2000-2011.

At Supply Chain Insights, we have invested in building a database of 21 financial ratios that we mine as part of our research process.

In this report, we take a closer look at retailers including those operating in the grocery, mass and specialty industry segments. We do not believe that all retail companies can be grouped together for comparison, but we do believe that the comparison of general trends across the industry is useful.

In picking companies for the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter reports, we identify two companies ranked on the 2011 Global 500 operating within the industry or industry segment of focus. We augment these companies with hand-selected companies that we believe provide meaningful comparison. Each analysis in this report is based on four companies operating within each industry segment. Specific information for each company profiled is presented in the Appendix.