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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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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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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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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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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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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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