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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 7,000 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Inventory Optimization: Show Me the Money
How can your organization optimize inventory to avoid excessive carrying costs and still satisfy demand? This article looks at the key components of inventory optimization as…
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Metric data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in logistics reveals how organizations perform regarding the mumber of employees in the logistics function per $1 billion…
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Logistics Tune-up Diagnostic
Examine four essential metrics included in this diagnostic to ensure that your practices will keep you running ahead of the competition. APQC's Logistics Tune-Up Diagnostic…
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To monitor performance of inbound deliveries process, many facilities use the metric dock to stock cycle time as a key performance indicator. Ensuring products are received…
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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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Supply Chain Management Tune-Up Diagnostic
Examine the four essential supply chain metrics included in this diagnostic to ensure that your practices will keep you running ahead of the competition. APQC's Supply Chain…
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Pick to Ship Cycle Time in Hours
APQC's perspective on metric data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in Logistics related to pick to ship cycle time in hours.
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Total Logistics Costs per $1,000 in Revenue
APQC's perspective on metric data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in Logistics related to total cost to perform the process group "manage logistics and warehousing"…
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Interactive Logistics Tune-Up Diagnostic
Compare your essential logistics metrics against your peers in this interactive spreadsheet. This tool includes the latest data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in…
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Interactive Supply Chain Management Tune-Up Diagnostic
Compare selected essential supply chain management metrics against your peers in this interactive spreadsheet. This tool includes the latest data from APQC's Open Standards…
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Understanding Logistics Processes
To objectively assess, manage, and compare logistics performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s Process…
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Reduce Shrinkage as a Percentage of Revenue
To preserve financial health and profit margins, organizations should seek to minimize shrinkage. Excess shrinkage can drive up inventory carrying costs, which are often…
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Raw Material Inventory Turns
Delivering goods and products begins with raw materials. Those materials vary widely by industry and manufacturing process, but all must be sourced and managed. A key…
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As customer demands increasingly shrink order cycle times, the warehouse has emerged as a critical success factor in supply chain excellence. But how can you ensure that your…
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Inventory accuracy impacts numerous areas of an organization, from customer orders and customer satisfaction to planning, budgeting, and the entire supply chain. This article…
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(1 - 5 of 186 Results)Inventory value per $1,000 total revenue
Percentage of orders expedited
Percentage of sales orders delivered on time
Number of FTEs that perform the process "operate outbound transportation" per $1 billion revenue
Number of FTEs that perform the process "operate warehousing" per $1 billion revenue
