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APQC’s Resource Library is your source for timely and topical information to help you meet your most complex business process and knowledge management challenges. Explore our ever-growing collection of more than 8,600 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Understanding Logistics Processes
To objectively assess, manage, and compare logistics performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s Process…
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Understanding Supply Chain Processes
To objectively assess, manage, and compare supply chain management performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s Process…
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Understanding Manufacturing Processes
To objectively assess, manage, and compare manufacturing practices and results, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes.APQC’s Process…
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Next-Generation Supplier Relationship Management
Much work has been done building good supplier relationship management (SRM) programs. As more companies embrace and adopt SRM best practices, it’s time to look holistically…
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To objectively assess, manage, and compare supply chain planning practices and results, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes.APQC’s…
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To withstand today’s supply chain challenges and flourish in the face of future disruptions, supply chain organizations and their teams need to make fundamental changes to…
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To objectively assess, manage, and compare procurement performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s Process…
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APQC’s research—conducted in partnership with supplier relationship management (SRM) experts Kate Vitasek, Bonnie Keith, and Emmanuel Cambresy—shows that although there are…
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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 weaves together insights from research conducted by APQC, APQC research advisor Kate Vitasek, author Daniel Coyle, and IBM to provide actionable advice on ways…
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Few terms are more popular and confusing than "Sustainability." Everyone is using it, but what does it mean? In this article, APQC provides a holistic definition plus…
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2022 Supply Chain Current State Quick Polls
APQC conducts frequent quick polls to collect information about the use and planned adoption of key practices, tools, technologies, software, and other activities in supply…
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Many large and global organizations are setting ambitious goals related to sustainability. Along with public commitments to human rights and more ethical forms of procurement…
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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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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a form of process automation that can handle repetitive, transactional, rules-based tasks that require little or no human oversight. By…