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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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End-to-End Process Maps and Measures
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They are large-scale…
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Getting Started with End-to-End Processes
Process frameworks and end-to-end process maps provide a standardized way for organizations to apply ownership and governance to their cross-functional processes and to…
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Process frameworks and end-to-end process maps provide a standardized way for organizations to apply ownership and governance to their cross-functional processes and to…
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In a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape, every supply chain organization faces at least some amount of risk. Disruptions to any link in the…
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Interactive Finance Organization Tune-Up Diagnostic
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking Finance Organization survey, this interactive diagnostic in Excel can help you compare your finance function's…
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Benchmarking and Improvement Tools
This is an APQC guide with models, techniques, diagrams, charts, and guides that organizations can use in their benchmarking and process improvement efforts. These include…
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To forge and accelerate breakthrough innovation in supply chain management, leaders are increasingly employing the tools of benchmarking to identify opportunities and develop…
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Using Audits and Benchmarking to Build Supply Chain Resilience
In the fast-paced and ever-changing world of global business, managing supply chain risk has become a paramount consideration for organizational success. To delve into this…
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Using Audits and Benchmarking to Build Supply Chain Resilience
In the fast-paced and ever-changing world of global business, managing supply chain risk has become a paramount consideration for organizational success. To delve into this…
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This collection brings together summaries of APQC’s major process and performance management research projects from the past five years. All the summaries are open to the…
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Why is Supply Chain Benchmarking Important?
Supply chain benchmarking is important because managers need to:understand how their supply chains compare to competitors’,evaluate “as is” conditions before they can…
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Supply Chain Benchmarking
This collection provides a supply chain perspective on benchmarking as a strategic tool, with a goal of understanding how it can continue to drive value for organizations…
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Value of Benchmarking in Supply Chain
Benchmarking is the process of comparing and measuring a chosen set of variables internally or externally against others. APQC global research has found that organizations…
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Supply Chain Benchmarking: What, Why, and How
APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead for Supply Chain Management, Marisa Brown, shared actionable insights into supply chain benchmarking and its benefits. Hear about…
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Supply Chain Benchmarking: What, Why, and How
APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead for Supply Chain Management, Marisa Brown, shared actionable insights into supply chain benchmarking and its benefits. Hear about…