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 8,600 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
Looking for something specific?
Ask us-
Articles|
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…
-
Articles|
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…
-
Articles|
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…
-
To withstand today’s supply chain challenges and flourish in the face of future disruptions, supply chain organizations and their teams need to make fundamental changes to…
-
Articles|
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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"…
-
Articles|
Pick-to-Ship Cycle Time
APQC's perspective on metric data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in Logistics related to pick-to-ship cycle time in hours.
-
Metric data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in logistics reveals how organizations perform regarding the number of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) in the…
-
To objectively assess, manage, and compare procurement performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s Process…
-
Articles|
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…
-
Staff productivity is an important factor in determining the performance of sourcing and procurement. A key productivity performance indicator for the procurement function is…
-
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…
-
Historically, many organizations viewed procurement simply as a spend center. Today, leading organizations view sourcing and procurement as a strategic opportunity for…
Key performance indicators and benchmarking data related to your search results are available. Click "View All Measure Spotlight Results" to open the search results.