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In its 2024 Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research, APQC asked supply chain professionals about their expectations and trends for the year ahead. With…
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With each new year comes a new (and/or continuing) set of supply chain successes and challenges. In early 2024, geopolitical developments and technological advances continue…
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When customers place an order, they expect perfection. Having grown accustomed to ever-faster order deliveries, customers have high expectations that every order will be…
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Could Santa Screw Up Christmas?
For those who enjoy a good logistics story, here's an article about Santa, a boy named Ralphie, and the debate about calculating the perfect order. "Could Santa Screw Up…
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Navigating the Order Management Landscape
To provide a roadmap for traversing this multi-layered OM landscape, APQC’s Marisa Brown (Senior Principal Research Lead, Supply Chain Management) and Madison Lundquist …
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In recent years, supply chain organizations have faced a shifting landscape that includes demand uncertainty, increasingly complex data management needs, and evolving…
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Customer expectations have changed as a result of recent disruptions and global health concerns like the COVID-19 pandemic. Through its customer service research, APQC finds…
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Optimizing Customer Service Podcast Summary
In this article, Graham Smith from Esker Inc. and Marisa Brown from APQC discuss how organizations can optimize their customer service practices and processes. Leveraging…
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The 2020 pandemic created massive supply chain disruptions around the world, and the hard truth is that these disruptions remain a fact of life in 2022 and the foreseeable…
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Transforming Quote-to-Cash at IBM
IBM optimized opportunity-to-order (O2O) and order-to-cash (O2C), but still struggled with data availability and cycle times due to the handoff between these processes. IBM…
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In December, with people increasingly shopping online, it is critical that customer orders arrive the way that they should. Speed is obviously important, but so is quality—As…
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Automating Order-to-Cash
Order-to-cash is a critical end-to-end process for every organization. It’s an integral part of the customer experience and essential to the ability to earn revenue for…
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Because it directly links the customer to the bottom line, an efficient order-to-cash process can make a significant contribution to an organization’s revenue stream. APQC…
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APQC’s white paper Optimizing the End-to-End Order-To-Cash Process details the activities encompassing the end-to-end O2C process, highlighting the special concerns…
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Digital transformation is no longer a competitive edge. Now, all organizations must go digital if they want to survive in the current business environment. Because supply…