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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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This collection contains APQC's Key Benchmarks at a Glance reports for several functions and processes. These documents feature key performance indicators (KPIs) and…
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Collections|
Financial Management Blueprints for Success
Blueprints for Success are comprehensive reports that are great starting points for following financial management innovators. These reports include: frameworks for financial…
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Data and Measures|
Customer Credit and Invoicing Key Benchmarks: Petroleum/Chemical Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in customer invoicing and credit, this table highlights financial management customer invoicing and credit key…
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Collections|
Customer Invoicing and Credit Key Benchmarks
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in customer invoicing and credit, this collection highlights financial management customer invoicing and credit…
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This collection features Credit and Collections data and practices from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® surveys for Accounts Receivable and Customer Credit and Invoicing…
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Data and Measures|
Customer Credit and Invoicing Key Benchmarks: Food and Beverage Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in customer invoicing and credit, this table highlights financial management customer invoicing and credit key…
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Data and Measures|
Summary of Open Standards Benchmarking Measures: Accounts Receivable
The APQC Open Standards Benchmarking® measure list concisely displays all of the measures currently available for a specific survey. These measures are organized by research…
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Data and Measures|
Summary of Open Standards Benchmarking Measures: Customer Credit and Invoicing
The APQC Open Standards Benchmarking® measure list concisely displays all of the measures currently available for a specific survey. These measures are organized by research…
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Articles|
Cycle Time in Days to Resolve Adjustments
A lengthy cycle time for billing adjustments can cause ripple effects for key finance processes like reporting and forecasting. After reviewing cross-industry data on cycle…
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Infographics|
Eliminating Adjustments Bottlenecks
Adjustments come about for perfectly understandable reasons. In some cases, customers might find that there was a mistake in their billing or that an order is delivered with…
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This collection features Accounts Receivable (AR) and invoicing data and practices from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® survey for Accounts Receivable and Collections and…
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Tools & Templates|
Interactive Accounts Receivable Tune-Up Diagnostic
Examine the essential metrics to ensure that your practices will keep you ahead of the competition. APQC's accounts receivable tune-up diagnostic highlights recent Open…
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Articles|
Invoice Processing and Greater Productivity
The practice of benchmarking is most effective when organizations measure and track key performance indicators both internally and externally. This is especially true when it…
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Improving your organization’s performance of AP processes year-over-year is all well and good, but is it good enough relative to other organizations? Benchmarking against…
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Challenging and chaotic business environments teach us important lessons if we are willing to learn them. There is one lesson that seems that all organizations need to keep…