Organizations often see shared services as a sure way of lowering procurement costs through consolidation. But is it that simple?

APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking  in procurement shows that organizations with category management programs have greater efficiency among procurement employees and thus need fewer full-time equivalent (FTE) ...

Before developing an effective program to reduce carbon in the supply chain, organizations need to explore a number of questions to ensure the program will be successful.

This webinar produced by APQC and AME (the Association for Manufacturing Excellence) looks at supplier category management, which is related to supplier relationship management.

Supply chain professionals will have to manage a number of trade-offs to reduce carbon output.

This article covers the details of how to design a Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) program.

Organizations choose to implement procurement card (P-card) programs to reduce costs, improve productivity, take advantage of trade discounts, and reduce the number of vendors and disbursements they must handle.

Many organizations are choosing to implement procurement card (P-card) programs in order to reduce costs, improve productivity, take advantage of trade discounts, and reduce the number of vendors and disbursements ...

Using procurement cards has many benefits within the organization, improved purchasing process, reduced number of accounts payable invoices and a decrease in disbursements.

APQC has indentified five key characteristics of organizations with high-performing procure to pay processes.