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APQC’s Blueprint for Success: Supply Chain Planning details the framework and best practices that help optimize processes, governance, infrastructure, and organizational…
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Supply Chain Management Costs
Data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in supply chain planning shows how organizations perform regarding supply chain management costs. There is a significant gap…
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While many supply chain leaders recognize the importance of negotiation, quite a few organizations struggle to cultivate this skill among their procurement staff. APQC…
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Supply chain functions that more frequently perform supply chain execution planning experience better business outcomes. According to APQC's Supply Chain Planning:…
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APQC has found that organizations using inventory and capacity allocation policies to schedule customer orders perform better on key performance indicators. According to APQC…
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APQC has found that organizations that view key information such as supply and demand data in real time perform better on key performance indicators: lower supply chain…
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Examining Finished Goods Inventory Turns
With supply chains (and the global economy more broadly) upended by COVID-19 in the first quarter of 2020, carefully managing inventory turnover, including understanding the…
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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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A wide range of organizations across industries use the Net Promoter® Score (NPS®) as a tool to measure and track customer loyalty. A good alternative to longer and more…
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In a December 2019 webinar sponsored by Esker Inc. and drawing on cross-functional APQC research, Marisa Brown (Senior Principal Research Lead, Supply Chain Management at…
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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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Next-Gen Demand Planning Technologies
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 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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