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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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Few terms are more popular and confusing than "Sustainability." Everyone is using it, but what does it mean? In this article, APQC provides a holistic definition plus…
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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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Raw Material Inventory Turns
Delivering goods and products begins with raw materials. Those materials vary widely by industry and manufacturing process, but all must be sourced and managed. A key…
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In today’s rapidly evolving business world, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors have emerged as essential pillars of effective supply chain management…
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Scaling Procurement Process to Enable Organizational Synergies
This session focused on key takeaways and lessons learned from the Synergy Program at Aristocrat Technologies. The program was introduced to build a bottom-up effort to drive…
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This session focused on key takeaways and lessons learned from the Synergy Program at Aristocrat Technologies. The program was introduced to build a bottom-up effort to drive…
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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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Picking the Right Procurement Measures
This article outlines how organizations can select the most appropriate procurement measures and effectively communicate procurement performance. It also provides key…
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In a field driven by precision and efficiency, supply chain organizations are looking for the right measures to track their performance and indicate opportunities for…
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Picking the Right Manufacturing Measures
This article discusses how organizations can select the most appropriate manufacturing measures and how they can effectively communicate performance. It also identifies key…
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How to Pick the Right Supply Chain Measures
In a field driven by precision and efficiency, supply chain organizations are looking for the right measures to track their performance and indicate opportunities for…
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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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Understanding Logistics Processes
To objectively assess, manage, and compare logistics performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s Process…
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Data and Measures|
Summary of Open Standards Benchmarking Measures: Logistics and Warehousing
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: Procurement
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…