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Staff productivity is an important factor in determining the performance of sourcing and procurement. A key productivity performance indicator for the procurement function is…
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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…
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Historically, many organizations viewed procurement simply as a spend center. Today, leading organizations view sourcing and procurement as a strategic opportunity for…
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Cycle Time to Issue a Purchase Order in Days
Cycle time measures are an important category of a balanced set of process measures. Cycle time reduction efforts may not only improve the turnaround time of key activities,…
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IT Function FTEs Per $1 Billion Revenue
The measure of Number of FTEs who perform IT processes per $1 billion revenue is an important efficiency KPI for the IT function. This article explains this measure and…
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The measure of Total IT cost, excluding depreciation/ amortization, per $1,000 revenue is another way to evaluate the cost of the IT function and is an important part of a…
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Cost key performance Indicators (KPIs) are part of a balanced set of performance indicators for organizations (which should also include productivity, efficiency, cycle time,…
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The measure of Total IT cost, excluding depreciation/ amortization, per IT function entity employee is one way to evaluate the cost of the IT function. This measure depicts…
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Benchmarking Dos and Don'ts
Benchmarking – the process of comparing and learning from the best practices of other companies – is an essential tool for growth in today’s business world. For leaders…
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Every organization should undertake a regular audit of its financial policies and procedures. Finance teams that can run these reviews in an efficient way can get back to the…
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In this article, APQC presents cross-industry data on the number of vacation days per year per employee that organizations offer and provides guidance for how you can build a…
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The Latest Trends and Performance Levers for HR Shared Services Organizations
For more than 10 years, ScottMadden and APQC have gathered benchmarks and trends specific to HR Shared Services through a custom benchmarking study focused exclusively on the…
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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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Optimizing HR Administration Headcount
When organizations are looking to cut costs and improve margins, headcount is often one of the first places that leaders scrutinize. But headcount reductions can easily…
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Getting Started with End-to-End Processes
Process frameworks and end-to-end process maps provide a standardized way for organizations to apply ownership and governance to their cross-functional processes and to…
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