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Demand planning is a long-term strategic approach to minimize inventory costs, anticipate shifting buying patterns, better inform suppliers, and most importantly, meet…
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New Skillsets Needed For Demand Planning
Demand planning is a long-term strategic approach to minimize inventory costs, anticipate shifting buying patterns, better inform suppliers, and most importantly, meet…
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Demand Planning for New Products
Demand planning is a long-term strategic approach to minimize inventory costs, anticipate shifting buying patterns, better inform suppliers, and most importantly, meet…
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Demand Planning
This collection contains content items about demand planning, including demand planning challenges, imperatives, and best practices, as well as an article about next…
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Identifying and Developing the Future Skills Needed in Sourcing and Procurement
This in-depth report from APQC, Identifying and Developing the Future Skills Needed in Sourcing and Procurement: Evolving Landscape Requires Revamped Talent Development,…
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In this presentation at APQC's 2019 Process and Performance Management Conference, Marisa Brown and Andrea Stroud shared insights from several recent APQC research projects…
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This article takes a closer look at data gathered by APQC from 626 global organizations related to manufacturing practices, focusing on digitalization and the adoption of…
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This article examines the number of full-time equivalent employees in procurement and how they are currently being allocated across processes. It uses data from APQC's Open…
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This article is a summary of an APQC conversation in August 2019 with supplier relationship experts Kate Vitasek, Bonnie Keith, and Emmanuel Cambresy. The panel discussion…
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Reinventing Supplier Relationships: Shifting From Lowest Cost to Highest Value Webinar
From an August 2019 webinar in supply chain management. Hear from supply chain experts Kate Vitasek, Bonnie Keith and Emmanuel Cambresy on how to best pick and work with your…
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Examine a key performance indicator in logistics to ensure that your practices will keep you running ahead of the competition. APQC highlights recent Open Standards…
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Evolving competitive and customer pressures and increasingly complex environmental regulations have made establishing formal returns management processes a priority for some…
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Total Procurement Cost per $1,000 Purchases
APQC's perspective on metric data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in Procurement related to Total Procurement Cost per $1,000 Purchases.
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Sales and Order Management Key Benchmarks
Prepared using APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® data in Sales and Order Management, this collection highlights important sales and order management benchmarks for…
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Digitalization In Manufacturing: Overview
The future of work is increasing digital, and nowhere is that more evident than in manufacturing. APQC has gathered and analyzed information from 626 global organizations…
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