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Digital transformation has taken the business world by storm. Organizations of all sizes and industries are investing in new technologies to boost productivity, cut costs,…
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Supply Chains in 2020 and Beyond
In November 2019, Marisa Brown (senior principal research lead, Supply Chain Management at APQC) and Bob Trebilcock (editorial director for Supply Chain Management Review at…
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This article’s magic number is 10: Specifically, the 10 skills deemed most important by participants in APQC’s Future Skillsets of Procurement Professionals research. The…
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As part of APQC’s Future Skillsets of Procurement Professionals research, which features responses from 204 global participants across a wide range of industries, APQC…
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APQC's Marisa Brown, senior principal research lead for supply chain management, summarized and shared the results of APQC’s global research in Future Skillsets of…
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Identifying and Developing the Future Skills Needed in Sourcing and Procurement: Executive Summary
This executive summary of the in-depth report from APQC, Identifying and Developing the Future Skills Needed in Sourcing and Procurement: Evolving Landscape Requires Revamped…
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As part of APQC's research into skills needed for future success in procurement, APQC interviewed the director of procurement services at a large Canadian university. As an…
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As procurement becomes more digital, data-driven, and strategically important, it’s increasingly clear that organizations need a new breed of procurement professional…
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Talent Development for Procurement and Strategic Sourcing: APQC Interview with Igor Zenker
In September 2019, APQC interviewed Igor Zenker, a sourcing manager and procurement professional with more than a decade of experience in strategic sourcing for large global…
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This article examines the number of full-time equivalent employees in procurement and how they are currently being allocated across processes. It uses data from APQC's Open…
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This article is a summary of an APQC conversation in August 2019 with supplier relationship experts Kate Vitasek, Bonnie Keith, and Emmanuel Cambresy. The panel discussion…
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Total Procurement Cost per $1,000 Purchases
APQC's perspective on metric data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in Procurement related to Total Procurement Cost per $1,000 Purchases.
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Procurement Improvement Begins with Process
Process improvement is the key to unlock more strategic procurement. Two sources of major change have combined to create a perfect storm around the procurement function…
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Despite the establishment of a formal procurement process, some organizations have staff members who engage in maverick purchasing. Maverick purchasing often occurs because a…
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This webinar wrap up summarizes a May 2019 APQC webinar featuring Xenophon Koufteros, Professor at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, who highlighted findings from…
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