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Understanding Procurement Benchmarks and Best Practices
This collection is your road map to success in managing procurement efficiency and effectiveness. The content within will teach you about key performance indicators (KPIs)…
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Staff productivity is an important factor in determining the performance of sourcing and procurement. A key productivity performance indicator for the procurement function is…
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Efficiency measures are an important component of a balanced set of measures for procurement. This article presents data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® for…
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Historically, many organizations viewed procurement simply as a spend center. Today, leading organizations view sourcing and procurement as a strategic opportunity for…
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Procurement Key Benchmarks
Featuring data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in Procurement, these articles highlight the median performance level on important procurement benchmarks for…
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Research has shown that many, if not most, of the world's most-used sourcing strategies are incomplete for modern procurement challenges. In this article, Kate Vitasek and…
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This article includes data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in Procurement that shows the number of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) in the procurement group and…
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This article includes metric data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® in procurement showcasing how organizations perform regarding supplier lead times for purchased…
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For supply chains that are more innovative and resilient in the face of disruption, organizations can no longer afford purely transactional approaches to supplier…
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In a constantly shifting business environment, it’s more important than ever for organizations to benchmark their performance for sourcing and procurement processes. Yet many…
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Benchmarking Sourcing and Procurement
Is your sourcing and procurement function efficient? Is it effective? How do your current practices compare to others? Members often come to APQC for benchmarks and…
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By fostering fruitful supplier relationships and designing strategically focused outcomes, sourcing and procurement professionals now play a central role in addressing supply…
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Supplier Risk Management: Current State Practices
This reports in this collection capture the current state of supplier risk management with actionable guidance from APQC. Gain insights into how organizations in various…
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This article’s magic number is 10: Specifically, the 10 skills deemed most important by participants in APQC’s Future Skillsets of Procurement Professionals research. The…
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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…