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Total Cost of Supply Chain Planning
Supply chain planning begins with a solid understanding of organizational and business strategy and then translating that strategy into the full spectrum of supply chain…
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Supply Chain Planning Tune-Up Diagnostic
Examine the four essential metrics included in this diagnostic to ensure that your supply chain planning practices will keep you running ahead of the competition. APQC's…
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Benchmarking Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time
Data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in supply chain planning shows how organizations perform on cash-to-cash cycle time. Cash-to-cash cycle time looks at the number…
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To objectively assess, manage, and compare supply chain planning practices and results, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes.APQC’s…
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Number of Supply Chain Planning Employees
Costs alone do not explain the totality of performance in supply chain planning; supply chain planning requires efficiency. This article includes data from APQC's Open…
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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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This paper makes the case for open innovation as an approach that can drive significant value for supply chain organizations. In contrast to traditional innovation, which…
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Benchmarking Sourcing and Procurement
Is your sourcing and procurement function efficient? Is it effective? How do your current practices compare to others?In this webinar presentation slides, APQC's Marisa Brown…
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If you want a faster, more efficient, and more productive procurement function, you should centralize direct procurement to the extent that you can. Of the organizations that…
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2025 Supply Chain Priorities, Challenges, and Trends
These presentation slides correspond to a February 2025 webinar where Marisa Brown, APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead for Supply Chain Management, presented insights and…
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While many supply chain organizations are on a journey to build resilience, relatively few have reached mature stages of risk management. For example, APQC recently found…
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ESG Reporting: Challenges and Opportunities
Organizations face multiple obstacles in meeting stakeholder demands for ESG reporting, including the wide scope of required metrics, internal and external barriers to…
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In supply chain operations, creative strategies for recruiting, developing, and otherwise accessing expertise in advanced analytics, data management, and change management…
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So far, 2025 has been a continuation of 2024: with supply chains facing disruptions and challenges resulting from multiple factors beyond anyone’s control. At the beginning…
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Supply chain planning encompasses a broad range of processes and activities. Drawing from data collected in late 2024, this article breaks down the cost of supply chain…
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