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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…
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Days Sales Outstanding
In moments of disruption like a global pandemic or an economic downturn, achieving better cash flow becomes a top concern for many organizations. In this article, APQC…
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This article reviews APQC’s benchmarking data on the percentage of active customers that are delinquent at any time during the year and highlights strategies that…
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Decisions to extend or withhold credit can be difficult to make in any time and in any economy. In a global pandemic and economic downturn, these decisions can be even more…
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Like other end-to-end processes, order-to-cash (O2C) involves an interconnected set of processes that span functional boundaries. It is important to be able to manage those…
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Recently, APQC interviewed Carmen Lim, the order to cash global process adviser for Chevron Lubricants’ U.S. operations and product owner for Chevron Lubricants’ Agile team,…
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Transforming Order-To-Cash Survey Report
Order-to-Cash (O2C) is the end-to-end value stream comprised of managing sales orders, processing customer credit, delivering products/services to customers, invoicing…
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Recently, APQC interviewed a large, multinational food and beverage manufacturing organization that faced the challenge of eliminating silos across languages and regional…
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Transformation in Order-to-Cash at Ecolab Indonesia
Ecolab, a global provider of water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services, is in the process of centralizing and standardizing key processes in order to…
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Transformation in Order-to-Cash at HPE
APQC recently spoke with Anshuman Kar, Vice President, Global Operations, about HPE’s transformation journey for the quote-to-cash value chain. This case study summarizes how…
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Transformation in Order-to-Cash at Novartis AG
Novartis has recently been engaged in a large-scale effort to transform end-to-end processes across organizational barriers in order to improve the customer experience. APQC…
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Transformation in Order-to-Cash at Duracell
Since its acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway, Duracell has been on a journey to strengthen elements of the Order-to-Cash (OTC) process, particularly in finance. By bringing…
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Transforming Credit-to-Cash at Cargill
Cargill Inc. is the largest privately-held company in the United States by revenue ($114.7 billion in 2018) and has approximately 166,000 employees working in 70 countries…
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Total Cost to Manage and Process Collections
Organizations must always be cognizant of the time and effort spent to process collections and mindful of valued customer relationships. Smart companies take a strategic…