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Data and Measures|
Procurement and Logistics Employee Key Benchmarks: Automotive Industry
Featuring data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) in Procurement and Logistics, this article provides employee key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for…
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When leaders think about what they need most to improve their supply chain processes, soft skills like change management and collaboration may not come to mind immediately…
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Collections|
2024 Supply Chain Priorities and Challenges
This collection contains content created from APQC's 2024 annual research into priorities and challenges for Supply Chain Management.Click here for results from 2023's…
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Webinars & Videos|
State of the Supply Chain 2024
APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead for Supply Chain Management, Marisa Brown, joins Dr. Christian Grandzol from the Nicholas J. Giuffre Center for Supply Chain Management…
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Infographics|
2024 Supply Chain Top Focus Areas
APQC concluded its tenth annual Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research in early 2024. With insights from 352 organizations around the world, this…
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Infographics|
Looking Back at Supply Chain Performance in 2023
APQC concluded its 10th annual Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research in early 2024. With insights from 352 organizations around the world, this…
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Tools & Templates|
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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Tools & Templates|
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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APQC research consistently shows that a collaborative organizational culture leads to increased productivity, improved cycle times for business processes, and innovation. The…
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Articles|
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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Tools & Templates|
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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Collaboration is a cornerstone of supply chain success. Planning and managing supply chains involves stakeholders from multiple functions and geographic areas across and…
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The best-practice organizations in APQC’s Next-Generation Communities of Practice research use their communities to facilitate collaboration across geographic locations, thus…
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Collections|
Improving Collaboration Across the Supply Chain
The complex nature of supply chain management requires collaboration across locations and functions, as well as with external partners. There is a need to connect people to…
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Articles|
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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