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It’s mutually beneficial for the supply chain and suppliers to work together to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Whereas coordination with suppliers is widely…
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APQC’s research in supply chain planning has found that the most pressing challenges in supply chain planning often concern data: data quality, data collection and…
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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…
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APQC’s Blueprint for Success: Supply Chain Planning details the framework and best practices that help optimize processes, governance, infrastructure, and organizational…
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Understanding Supply Chain Responsiveness
While COVID-19 is an unprecedented global health emergency in 2020, its impacts—which range from increased supply costs to inventory shortages to production slowdowns and…
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Supply Chain Management Costs
Data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in supply chain planning shows how organizations perform regarding supply chain management costs. There is a significant gap…
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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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APQC has found that organizations using inventory and capacity allocation policies to schedule customer orders perform better on key performance indicators. According to APQC…
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APQC has found that organizations that view key information such as supply and demand data in real time perform better on key performance indicators: lower supply chain…
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Supply chain functions that more frequently perform supply chain execution planning experience better business outcomes. According to APQC's Supply Chain Planning:…
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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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APQC's research team members have been looking at key trends in 2019 and providing their outlook for 2020 and beyond. The wildly successful social media campaign for…
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Next-Gen Demand Planning Technologies
Demand planning is a long-term strategic approach to minimize inventory costs, anticipate shifting buying patterns, better inform suppliers, and most importantly, meet…
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Demand planning is a long-term strategic approach to minimize inventory costs, anticipate shifting buying patterns, better inform suppliers, and most importantly, meet…
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New Skillsets Needed For Demand Planning
Demand planning is a long-term strategic approach to minimize inventory costs, anticipate shifting buying patterns, better inform suppliers, and most importantly, meet…
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