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How much do warranty issues end up costing your company? For some, it can amount to tens of millions of dollars—money that could be much better spent on researching and…
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APQC’s research in supply chain planning has found that mature supply chains that support omnichannel commerce strategies enable greater flexibility and faster customer order…
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It’s mutually beneficial for the supply chain and suppliers to work together to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Whereas coordination with suppliers is widely…
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APQC’s research in supply chain planning has found that the most pressing challenges in supply chain planning often concern data: data quality, data collection and…
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Even in the most ideal market scenarios, organizations need to be able to react quickly to change and want their supply chains to be responsive and nimble. This now…
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Are you able to fulfill your customers’ orders with what they want when they want it? What will the impact to your company be if you cannot? Unfulfilled sales order line…
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Supply Chain Planning: Blueprint for Success
APQC’s Supply Chain Planning: Blueprint for Success details the framework and best practices that help optimize processes, governance, infrastructure, and organizational…
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APQC’s Blueprint for Success: Supply Chain Planning details the framework and best practices that help optimize processes, governance, infrastructure, and organizational…
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Supply Chain Management Costs
Data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in supply chain planning shows how organizations perform regarding supply chain management costs. There is a significant gap…
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While many supply chain leaders recognize the importance of negotiation, quite a few organizations struggle to cultivate this skill among their procurement staff. APQC…
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Supply chain functions that more frequently perform supply chain execution planning experience better business outcomes. According to APQC's Supply Chain Planning:…
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APQC has found that organizations using inventory and capacity allocation policies to schedule customer orders perform better on key performance indicators. According to APQC…
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APQC has found that organizations that view key information such as supply and demand data in real time perform better on key performance indicators: lower supply chain…
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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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2020 Supply Chain Disruptions Quick Poll Summary Report
In March 2020, APQC and Supply Chain Management Review collected information from 90 global supply chain professionals about the current state of disruptions within their…
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