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In its 2024 Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research, APQC asked supply chain professionals about their expectations and trends for the year ahead. With…
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2024 Supply Chain Priorities and Challenges: White Paper
In its 2024 Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research, APQC asked supply chain professionals about their expectations and trends for the year ahead. With…
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With each new year comes a new (and/or continuing) set of supply chain successes and challenges. In early 2024, geopolitical developments and technological advances continue…
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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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2024 Supply Chain Priorities and Challenges: Cross-Industry Report
APQC concluded its tenth annual Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research in early 2024. This report includes insights on organizations’ supply chain…
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Could Santa Screw Up Christmas?
For those who enjoy a good logistics story, here's an article about Santa, a boy named Ralphie, and the debate about calculating the perfect order. "Could Santa Screw Up…
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Navigating the Order Management Landscape
To provide a roadmap for traversing this multi-layered OM landscape, APQC’s Marisa Brown (Senior Principal Research Lead, Supply Chain Management) and Madison Lundquist …
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2023 Supply Chain Priorities and Challenges Survey Report
APQC concluded its ninth annual Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research in early 2023. This survey report includes insights on organizations’ supply…
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In recent years, supply chain organizations have faced a shifting landscape that includes demand uncertainty, increasingly complex data management needs, and evolving…
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Customer expectations have changed as a result of recent disruptions and global health concerns like the COVID-19 pandemic. Through its customer service research, APQC finds…
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Optimizing Customer Service Podcast Summary
In this article, Graham Smith from Esker Inc. and Marisa Brown from APQC discuss how organizations can optimize their customer service practices and processes. Leveraging…
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Optimizing Customer Service Podcast
On this APQC podcast, Optimizing Customer Service, Graham Smith from Esker Inc. and Marisa Brown from APQC discuss how organizations can optimize their customer service…
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Optimizing Customer Service: White Paper
Customer service interactions are ‘moments of truth’ that provide customer service representatives with an opportunity to transform wary, skeptical, or dissatisfied customers…
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Optimizing Customer Service: Survey Report
APQC conducted research, sponsored by Esker Inc., to understand how organizations can enable better customer service and alleviate critical challenges facing both customer…
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The 2020 pandemic created massive supply chain disruptions around the world, and the hard truth is that these disruptions remain a fact of life in 2022 and the foreseeable…