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Supply Chain Management Key Benchmarks: Pharmaceutical Industry
Featuring APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) data for supply chain planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics, this article provides key performance…
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Supply Chain Management Key Benchmarks: Retail and Wholesale Industry
Featuring APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) data for supply chain planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics, this article provides key performance…
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Supply Chain Management Key Benchmarks: Cross Industry
Featuring APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) data for supply chain planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics, this article provides key performance…
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Supply Chain Management Key Benchmarks: Aerospace Industry
Featuring APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) data for supply chain planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics, this article provides key performance…
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Supply Chain Management Key Benchmarks: Automotive Industry
Featuring APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) data for supply chain planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics, this article provides key performance…
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Supply Chain Management Key Benchmarks: Consumer Products/Packaged Goods Industry
Featuring APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) data for supply chain planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics, this article provides key performance…
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In its 2024 Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research, APQC asked supply chain professionals about their expectations and trends for the year ahead. With…
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With each new year comes a new (and/or continuing) set of supply chain successes and challenges. In early 2024, geopolitical developments and technological advances continue…
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The Human Side of the SRM Equation
Supplier relationship management (SRM) is particularly crucial in today’s world of supply chain upheaval. Development of SRM tools using AI and other advanced technologies is…
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Procurement Tune-Up Diagnostic
Examine the procurement key performance indicators included in this diagnostic to ensure that your practices will keep you running ahead of the competition. Click here to…
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Staff productivity is an important factor in determining the performance of sourcing and procurement. A key productivity performance indicator for the procurement function is…
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Efficiency measures are an important component of a balanced set of measures for procurement. This article presents data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® for…
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Historically, many organizations viewed procurement simply as a spend center. Today, leading organizations view sourcing and procurement as a strategic opportunity for…
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Cycle Time to Issue a Purchase Order in Days
Cycle time measures are an important category of a balanced set of process measures. Cycle time reduction efforts may not only improve the turnaround time of key activities,…
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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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