Resource Library
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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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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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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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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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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Cash-To-Cash Cycle Time in Days
Cash-to-cash cycle time, also known as the cash conversion cycle (CCC), measures the amount of time it takes for a company to convert resources like inventory or investments…
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Logistics Practices Report: Cross-Industry
APQC conducts ongoing research in the logistics area to help organizations assess their logistics function performance. The research details the current state of selected…
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Examining Finished Goods Inventory Turns
With supply chains (and the global economy more broadly) upended by COVID-19 in the first quarter of 2020, carefully managing inventory turnover, including understanding the…
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Building a Logistics Blueprint for Success
In an October 2018 webinar, learn from APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead, Marisa Brown about findings from APQC's Blueprint for Success: Logistics. Topics covered include…
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Adopt a Warehouse Management System
A warehouse management system (WMS) automates and tracks inventory and end-to-end materials/product movement, as well as optimizes available warehouse space with storage and…
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Radio frequency identification (RFID) and bar codes are mobile, automated data collection technologies that identify and track inventory. Organizations use RFID and, more…
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Logistics Blueprint for Success
View logistics as the key to gain a competitive advantage and discover how to use logistics functions and supporting processes to profoundly impact your organization's bottom…
