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Organizations that can hire more quickly than their peers and competitors have a distinct advantage in the talent marketplace. Moving too quickly to hire, however, could end…
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Cycle Time to Prepare the Financial Forecast
Financial forecasting is a high priority for CFOs, and doing it more efficiently and accurately is an admirable goal. Whether an organization creates a comprehensive forecast…
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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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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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What are End-To-End Processes and How Do Organizations Use Them?
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They address large-scale…
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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…
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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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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…
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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"…
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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.
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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…
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Electric utilities have industry-wide reliability standards to measure the duration and frequency of power outages. But how were these standards established? It wasn’t a…
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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…
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