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In its 2024 Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research, APQC asked supply chain professionals about their expectations and trends for the year ahead. With…
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With each new year comes a new (and/or continuing) set of supply chain successes and challenges. In early 2024, geopolitical developments and technological advances continue…
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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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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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Navigating the Order Management Landscape
To provide a roadmap for traversing this multi-layered OM landscape, APQC’s Marisa Brown (Senior Principal Research Lead, Supply Chain Management) and Madison Lundquist …
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Order Management Landscape Challenges
In these June 2023 webinar presentation slides, APQC asks how to evaluate the end-to-end order management landscape. This includes analyzing the people, processes, tools and…
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In recent years, supply chain organizations have faced a shifting landscape that includes demand uncertainty, increasingly complex data management needs, and evolving…
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Customer expectations have changed as a result of recent disruptions and global health concerns like the COVID-19 pandemic. Through its customer service research, APQC finds…
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Optimizing Customer Service Podcast Summary
In this article, Graham Smith from Esker Inc. and Marisa Brown from APQC discuss how organizations can optimize their customer service practices and processes. Leveraging…
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Driving Supply Chain Efficiencies with Digital Order Management Solutions
In these presentation slides, APQC's Marisa Brown, senior principal lead for supply chain management, and Esker's Grant Smith discuss the biggest supply chain challenges…
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The 2020 pandemic created massive supply chain disruptions around the world, and the hard truth is that these disruptions remain a fact of life in 2022 and the foreseeable…
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Digital Order Strategy: Hacks For Insulating Your Business Against Disruption
In these presentation slides, APQC's Marisa Brown, senior principal lead for supply chain management, and Esker's Nick Carpenter share digital order strategies and hacks for…
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In December, with people increasingly shopping online, it is critical that customer orders arrive the way that they should. Speed is obviously important, but so is quality—As…
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Automating Order-to-Cash
Order-to-cash is a critical end-to-end process for every organization. It’s an integral part of the customer experience and essential to the ability to earn revenue for…
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Because it directly links the customer to the bottom line, an efficient order-to-cash process can make a significant contribution to an organization’s revenue stream. APQC…