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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.
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End-to-End Process Maps and Measures: Sales and Operations Planning (Excel)
A common struggle for any end-to-end process management is identifying the right measures that encapsulate the value of the process. This Excel file includes the lists of…
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Procurement in the Cloud
Supply chain disruptions and uncertainty have driven many organizations to adopt cloud-based purchasing applications and platforms. While the cloud allows for more flexible…
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Mitigating Expedited Costs in Logistics
Unexpected spikes in demand may require an organization to expedite orders to meet customer needs. While the causes of expedited orders are sometimes beyond an organization’s…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Basic Provider Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Basic Provider sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Preferred Provider Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Preferred Provider sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Performance-Based/Managed Services Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Performance-based/Managed Services sourcing business model, here is…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Vested Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Vested sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use checklist to…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Shared Services Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Shared Services sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Equity Partnership Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Equity Partnership business model, here is an easy-to-use checklist…
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Five Steps to Collaborative Relationships
To create strategic, long-term relationships, partnering organizations must look beyond the traditional me-first approach to contracting. In this article, APQC provides 5…
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The business battles of this century will be won by harnessing the power of suppliers. Leading organizations recognize that the playing field of procurement is no longer one…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Approved Provider Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Approved Provider sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use…
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Research has shown that many, if not most, of the world's most-used sourcing strategies are incomplete for modern procurement challenges. In this article, Kate Vitasek and…
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This article weaves together insights from research conducted by APQC, APQC research advisor Kate Vitasek, author Daniel Coyle, and IBM to provide actionable advice on ways…
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End-to-End Process Maps and Measures: Procure-to-Pay
A common struggle for any end-to-end process management is identifying the right measures that encapsulate the value of the process. This article contains key performance…
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