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Cost of goods sold as a percentage of revenue
This measure calculates the total annual cost of goods sold (COGS) as a percentage of revenue. COGS represents the cost of purchasing raw materials and manufacturing finished…
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Total cost to perform the process group "procure materials and services" per $1,000 purchases
This measure calculates the total cost to perform the process group "procure materials and services" per $1,000 value of material and service purchases. Total process cost is…
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Total cost to perform the process group "manage logistics and warehousing" per $1 billion revenue
This measure calculates the total cost to perform the process group "manage logistics and warehousing"—which plans, implements, and controls the forward and reverse flow and…
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Systems cost to perform the process "process accounts receivable (AR)" as a percentage of total process cost
This measure calculates the percentage of the total cost to perform the "process accounts receivable (AR)" process that comes from systems cost. The purpose of this process…
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Systems cost to perform the process "process accounts receivable (AR)" per $100,000 revenue
This measure calculates systems cost per $100,000 revenue to perform the "process accounts receivable (AR)" process, which processes payments due from customers, including…
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Total cost to perform the process group "manage logistics and warehousing" per $1,000 revenue
This measure calculates the total cost to perform the process group "manage logistics and warehousing"—which plans, implements, and controls the forward and reverse flow and…
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Personnel cost to perform the process "process accounts receivable (AR)" as a percentage of the total process cost
This measure calculates the percentage of the total cost to perform the "process accounts receivable (AR)" process that comes from personnel cost. The purpose of this process…
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Personnel cost to perform the process "process accounts receivable (AR)" per process FTE
This measure calculates personnel cost per process full-time equivalent (FTE) employee to perform the "process accounts receivable (AR)" process, which processes payments due…
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Total cost to perform the process "process accounts receivable (AR)" as a percentage of revenue
This measure calculates the total cost as a percentage of revenue to perform the "process accounts receivable (AR)" process, which processes payments due from customers,…
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Total cost to perform the process "process accounts receivable (AR)" per process FTE
This measure calculates the total cost per process full-time equivalent (FTE) employee to perform the "process accounts receivable (AR)" process, which processes payments due…
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Total cost to perform the process "process accounts receivable (AR)" per $1 billion revenue
This measure calculates the total cost per $1 billion revenue to perform the "process accounts receivable (AR)" process, which processes payments due from customers,…
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Total cost to perform the process "process accounts receivable (AR)" per $1,000 revenue
This measure calculates the total cost per $1,000 revenue to perform the "process accounts receivable (AR)" process, which processes payments due from customers, including…
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Inventory accuracy
This measure calculates average inventory accuracy, which is the absolute value of the sum of the variance between physical inventory and perpetual inventory (i.e. inventory…
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Inventory carrying cost as a percentage of inventory value
This measure calculate inventory carrying cost as a percentage of inventory value. Inventory carrying cost includes opportunity cost/cost of capital (for the money tied up in…
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Inventory obsolescence as a percentage of total inventory
This measure calculates the percentage of total inventory that is at the end of its product life cycle and has not seen any sales or usage for a set period of time usually…