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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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When customers place an order, they expect perfection. Having grown accustomed to ever-faster order deliveries, customers have high expectations that every order will be…
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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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In late 2022, APQC carried out a quick poll of 278 manufacturing organizations about the use of advanced analytics in supply chain. ‘Advanced analytics’ refers to technology…
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Big Data and Advanced Analytics in Supply Chain Quick Poll Summary Report
APQC conducts periodic quick polls in supply chain to collect information from supply chain professionals about the use and planned adoption of emerging technologies and key…
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Big Data and Advanced Analytics: 2022 Current State
This infographic highlights data APQC collected in late 2022 from global supply chain professionals about the current state of Big Data & Advanced Analytics in supply chains…
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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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Whether supply chain leaders are trying to figure out the optimal supplier network, where to locate inventory, or how customer demand patterns will be affected by a new…
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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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Supply chain risk management (SCRM) software is an important piece of solving the supplier risk puzzle, but there are many considerations to weigh in choosing the best-fit…
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When leaders think about what they need most to improve their supply chain processes, soft skills like collaboration and communication may not come to mind immediately. But…
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At the end of 2021, APQC conducted its annual Supply Chain Challenges and Priorities survey. Each year APQC surveys a group of globally diverse, cross-industry supply chain…
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Getting Started with Sustainability
This article was developed from ideas shared on the APQC Talks Sustainability webinar. For additional resources, see APQC’s Sustainability collection.
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Productivity Metrics: Finance, Human Resources, Supply Chain
APQC’s Process and Performance Management (PPM) team examined some of the most common productivity metrics and KPIs within Financial Management (FM), Human Capital Management…
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Supply chains need to be able to nimbly respond to market shifts and supply issues. But many organizations neglect to see how flexibility is also needed to ensure supply…