Those companies that ultimately do meet the strict Gartner criteria are then submitted to a group of peer voters, as well as a few dozen Gartner analysts, who nominate their choices for the Top 25 (in the interests of full disclosure, as in years past, I am one of the peer opinion voters). All of the companies under consideration are also evaluated on several metrics: three-year weighted return on assets; three-year weighted revenue growth; and inventory turns. The votes and the metrics are then sorted through, and a composite score for each company is tabulated. Thus, the final rankings are part beauty contest, part financial performance, with inventory turns being the only true supply chain metric but not one that applies equally well to every industry (fast-food giant McDonald’s, for instance, blows the rest of the pack away with 153 turns, which is well more than twice as many as any other company on the list).