When organizations are looking to reduce headcount, they often begin at the management level and with middle management in particular. While reducing the number of middle managers in your organization can help you save labor costs more quickly, cuts to middle management can also be…

In late 2022, APQC carried out a quick poll of 278 manufacturing organizations about the use ofadvanced analytics in supply chain. ‘Advanced analytics’ refers to technology-enabled, complex processes of examining large and varied data sets to uncover key trends, unknown correlations, customer…

As knowledge management professionals, we are bombarded almost daily with information about artificial intelligence (AI), specifically generative AI (GenAI) capabilities such as ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and DALL-E2. But did you know AI has been around for a long time now? In fact, according to…

What is Benchmarking? Benchmarking is an approach an organization uses to measure its internal processes and look externally to identify, understand, and adapt practices used by best-in-class organizations.How well are your business functions performing? This seems like a simple enough…

At our conference earlier this year, we brought KM and PPM professionals together; I heard more than once of the strong relationship between the two. And while this is evident in certain areas such as improved customer experience, reduced cycle time/elimination of rework, and upskilling employees,…

When an organization’s most critical knowledge is moving through the organization efficiently and reaching the right people at the right time, you have knowledge flow! It starts when new knowledge is created and includes all the people and systems the knowledge must pass through before it is…

When it comes to processes, continuous improvement is the direct opposite of “one and done.” It is instead an ongoing journey of identifying, analyzing, and making incremental improvements to processes. By making continual changes, organizations are greater equip to drive efficiency and improve…

In response to increasing global interest in end-to-end processes, APQC has gathered insight into how organizations are governing and managing their procure-to-pay (P2P) processes. This end-to-end process begins with ordering goods and services, then receiving those goods and services, and finally…

APQC finds that there are five HR measures that every organization should benchmark: HR cost per $1,000 revenue, HR cost per employee, number of employees per HR FTE, number of HR FTEs per $1 billion revenue, and number of HR administration FTEs per $1 billion revenue.Top Five HR Measures to…

You benchmark in supply chain by planning your activities, collecting quantitative and qualitative data from your own and other organizations, analyzing what you collected, and then adapting your findings to take action. To benchmark a supply chain, it’s important to begin with a clear…