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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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Evolution of Benchmarking: A Supply Chain Perspective
Benchmarking has been and continues to be one of the most popular management tools. There is a critical need to look towards the future and understand how it will continue to…
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Articles|
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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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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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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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…
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As supply chain planning becomes increasingly complex, supply chain professionals have an ever-widening field of concerns to be responsible for. At the same time,…
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APQC’s research in supply chain planning has found that the most pressing challenges in supply chain planning often concern data: data quality, data collection and…
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The benefits of improved forecast accuracy in supply chain are numerous and often-documented, including better results on customer service key performance indicators (KPIs)…