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Procurement Key Benchmarks: Retail and Wholesale Industry
Featuring data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) in Procurement, this article provides key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations in the retail…
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Procurement Key Benchmarks: Telecommunications Industry
Featuring data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) in Procurement, this article provides key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations in the…
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Procurement Key Benchmarks: Utility Industry
Featuring data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) in Procurement, this article provides key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations in the…
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Logistics Key Benchmarks: Cross Industry
Featuring data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) in Logistics, this article provides key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations across various…
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All organizations depend on others as part of their operations. With multiple organizations involved in sourcing, manufacturing, and delivering goods, the supply chain is a…
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Risks and disruptions are an inevitable part of today's supply chain management, and leading organizations should be able to plan for these risks and minimize their impact by…
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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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Could Santa Screw Up Christmas?
For those who enjoy a good logistics story, here's an article about Santa, a boy named Ralphie, and the debate about calculating the perfect order. "Could Santa Screw Up…
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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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Procurement in the Cloud
Supply chain disruptions and uncertainty have driven many organizations to adopt cloud-based purchasing applications and platforms. While the cloud allows for more flexible…
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Mitigating Expedited Costs in Logistics
Unexpected spikes in demand may require an organization to expedite orders to meet customer needs. While the causes of expedited orders are sometimes beyond an organization’s…
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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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Five Steps to Collaborative Relationships
To create strategic, long-term relationships, partnering organizations must look beyond the traditional me-first approach to contracting. In this article, APQC provides 5…
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The business battles of this century will be won by harnessing the power of suppliers. Leading organizations recognize that the playing field of procurement is no longer one…
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