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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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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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APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® in logistics indicates that organizations are still trying to find the right balance between carrying enough inventory and minimizing…
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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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In its 2023 Supply Chain Priorities and Challenges research, APQC asked supply chain professionals about their expectations and trends for the year ahead. With input from 347…
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Focus on People in Supply Chain in 2023
In late 2022, APQC conducted its annual supply chain management priorities and trends research. Each year, this survey asks supply chain professionals representing a diverse…
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In its 2022 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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Healthcare organizations shouldn't restore supply chains to pre-pandemic levels; rather, they should focus on greater cost effective and efficient operations. In this session…
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This year is quickly turning out to be an unprecedented one for supply chain management. In late 2019 and early 2020, APQC conducted a survey of 234 supply chain…
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Examining Finished Goods Inventory Turns
With supply chains (and the global economy more broadly) upended by COVID-19 in the first quarter of 2020, carefully managing inventory turnover, including understanding the…
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Examine a key performance indicator in logistics to ensure that your practices will keep you running ahead of the competition. APQC highlights recent Open Standards…
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As part of APQC's fifth annual supply chain priorities research, APQC analyzed the perspectives of respondents based on their organization size in terms of revenue. This…
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As part of APQC's fifth annual supply chain priorities research, APQC analyzed the perspectives of respondents based on their primary desired supply chain outcome: increase…