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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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Understanding Logistics Processes
To objectively assess, manage, and compare logistics performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s Process…
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Supply Chain Management Tune-Up Diagnostic
Examine the four essential supply chain metrics included in this diagnostic to ensure that your practices will keep you running ahead of the competition. APQC's Supply Chain…
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The performance measure Actual Production Rate as a Percentage of the Maximum Capable Production Rate evaluates how well an organization is using its installed manufacturing…
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As manufacturing organizations navigate disruptions resulting from the global pandemic such as labor shortages and social distancing requirements, production is ramping back…
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Understanding Manufacturing Processes
To objectively assess, manage, and compare manufacturing practices and results, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes.APQC’s Process…
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Manufacturing Tune-Up Diagnostic
Examine four essential metrics to ensure that your practices will keep you running ahead of the competition. APQC's Manufacturing Tune-Up Diagnostic highlights recent Open…
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Total Cost of Manufacturing
Metric data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in manufacturing reveals how organizations perform regarding the total cost of manufacturing per $1,000 in revenue.
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Data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in manufacturing indicates how organizations perform regarding unplanned machine downtime.
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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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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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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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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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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 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…
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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…