Resource Library
APQC’s Resource Library is your source for timely and topical information to help you meet your most complex business process and knowledge management challenges. Explore our ever-growing collection of more than 8,600 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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2024 Supply Chain Current State Quick Polls
APQC conducts periodic quick polls in supply chain to learn about the latest trends in emerging technologies and key practices. In May 2024, APQC gathered insights from…
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The are numerous benefits of improved forecast accuracy in supply chain, including better results on customer service key performance indicators (KPIs) such as faster cycle…
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Now in the Resource Library: Supply Chain Management
This report offers an overview of APQC's Resource Library content in supply chain management published in late 2023 and 2024.You can also find direct links to various…
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Improving Supply Chain Planning
As the discipline continues to grow in maturity and importance, supply chain planning becomes even more complex. There are exponentially increasing inputs to account for in…
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When customers place an order, they expect perfection. Having grown accustomed to ever-faster order deliveries, customers have high expectations that every order will be…
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Evolution of Benchmarking: A Supply Chain Perspective
Benchmarking has been and continues to be one of the most popular management tools. There is a critical need to look towards the future and understand how it will continue to…
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Reduce Scrap and Rework Costs
Scrap and rework is an important metric to track in manufacturing. Use this document to compare your organization's performance against over 870 other organizations worldwide…
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Measures help supply chain leaders identify opportunities for improvement, track important trends, monitor key business drivers, and more. With so many potential measures to…
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Whether supply chain leaders are trying to figure out the optimal supplier network, where to locate inventory, or how customer demand patterns will be affected by a new…
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At the end of 2021, APQC conducted its annual Supply Chain Challenges and Priorities survey. Each year APQC surveys a group of globally diverse, cross-industry supply chain…
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2021 Supply Chain Management Webinars
APQC hosts supply chain management (SCM) webinars to connect with our members. Some calls feature internal experts discussing APQC's research and findings. For other calls,…
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2020 Supply Chain Management Webinars
APQC hosts supply chain management (SCM) webinars to connect with our members. Some calls feature internal experts discussing APQC's research and findings. For other calls,…
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APQC’s research in supply chain planning has found that the most pressing challenges in supply chain planning often concern data: data quality, data collection and…
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Supply chains need to be able to nimbly respond to market shifts and supply issues. But many organizations neglect to see how flexibility is also needed to ensure supply…
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As supply chain planning becomes increasingly complex, supply chain professionals have an ever-widening field of concerns to be responsible for. At the same time,…