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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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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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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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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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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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Raw Material Inventory Turns
Delivering goods and products begins with raw materials. Those materials vary widely by industry and manufacturing process, but all must be sourced and managed. A key…
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Reduce Scrap and Rework Costs
Scrap and rework is an important metric to track in manufacturing. Use this document to compare your organization's performance against over 870 other organizations worldwide…
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In late 2022, APQC carried out a quick poll of 301 supply chain professionals about the current state of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and Integrated Business Planning…
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Supply chain management is central to an organization’s operations and business success, so picking the most relevant performance metrics is crucial. The need for employee…
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In a field driven by precision and efficiency, supply chain organizations are looking for the right measures to track their performance and indicate opportunities for…
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Are you able to fulfill your customers’ orders with what they want when they want it? What will the impact to your company be if you cannot? Unfulfilled sales order line…