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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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Effective customer service helps ensure that your customers are repeat buyers, your brand maintains a good reputation, and the money you invest in customer service is well…
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Making Leaps in Your Customer Service Performance
To assess whether your organization is doing well in customer service, it’s essential to choose the relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate your customer…
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Benchmarking your organization’s customer service function is critical for finding improvement opportunities, discovering trends over time, and more. But choosing the right…
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In a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape, every supply chain organization faces at least some amount of risk. Disruptions to any link in the…
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To forge and accelerate breakthrough innovation in supply chain management, leaders are increasingly employing the tools of benchmarking to identify opportunities and develop…
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In 2023, APQC conducted research, sponsored by Esker Inc., that took a detailed look at the top KPIs organizations employ to measure customer service and order management…
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As organizations increasingly embrace a process-focused operating model, end-to-end global process owners (GPOs) have become a key role in the management and development of…
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Why is Supply Chain Benchmarking Important?
Supply chain benchmarking is important because managers need to:understand how their supply chains compare to competitors’,evaluate “as is” conditions before they can…
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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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Value of Benchmarking in Supply Chain
Benchmarking is the process of comparing and measuring a chosen set of variables internally or externally against others. APQC global research has found that organizations…
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Reduce Scrap and Rework Costs
Scrap and rework is an important metric to track in manufacturing. Use this document to compare your organization's performance against over 870 other organizations worldwide…
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Supply chain management is central to an organization’s operations and business success, so picking the most relevant performance metrics is crucial. The need for employee…
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Measures help supply chain leaders identify opportunities for improvement, track important trends, monitor key business drivers, and more. With so many potential measures to…
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How to Pick the Right Supply Chain Measures
In a field driven by precision and efficiency, supply chain organizations are looking for the right measures to track their performance and indicate opportunities for…
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In a field driven by precision and efficiency, supply chain organizations are looking for the right measures to track their performance and indicate opportunities for…