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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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Inventory Optimization: Show Me the Money
How can your organization optimize inventory to avoid excessive carrying costs and still satisfy demand? This article looks at the key components of inventory optimization as…
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Picking the Right Logistics Measures
Organizations are looking for the right logistics measures to track their performance and indicate opportunities for improvement. This article states how organizations can…
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Idea Management and Innovation Approaches for Supply Chain
Almost every organization recognizes that it needs to transfer and reuse institutional knowledge, but many do not know where to start or how to select the best approach for a…
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Collaboration Approaches for Supply Chain
Many supply chain leaders want to facilitate collaboration, but do not know where to start or how to select the best tool/approach for a given scenario. This guide is…
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Retaining Knowledge in the Supply Chain
With a wave of retirements causing a “silver tsunami” and organizations changing rapidly, supply chain leaders are worried about losing critical knowledge. Critical knowledge…
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How to Document Supply Chain Knowledge
Across the supply chain, employees have knowledge in their heads that could—and should—be shared more broadly. Supply chain leaders must provide ways for employees to quickly…
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Identifying Critical Supply Chain Knowledge
Critical knowledge loss in the supply chain is dangerous and unfortunately, all too common. When employees change roles or leave the organization, mergers/acquisitions and…
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In this article, you will learn about the current state of virtual collaboration, what it means for supply chain management, and five keys to leading more successful and…
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Social media has become a centerpiece of daily life, and employees increasingly expect to be able to use fast-paced and interactive social tools at work. Many organizations…
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Understanding Procurement Benchmarks and Best Practices
This collection is your road map to success in managing procurement efficiency and effectiveness. The content within will teach you about key performance indicators (KPIs)…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Basic Provider Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Basic Provider sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Preferred Provider Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Preferred Provider sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Performance-Based/Managed Services Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Performance-based/Managed Services sourcing business model, here is…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Vested Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Vested sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use checklist to…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Shared Services Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Shared Services sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use…