Resource Library
APQC’s Resource Library is your source for timely and topical information to help you meet your most complex business process and knowledge management challenges. Explore our ever-growing collection of more than 8,600 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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2024 Supply Chain Priorities, Challenges, and Trends
These presentation slides correspond to a February 2024 webinar where Marisa Brown, APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead for Supply Chain Management, presented insights and…
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2023 Supply Chain Priorities, Challenges, and Trends
These presentation slides correspond to a March 2023 webinar where Marisa Brown, APQC senior principal research lead for Supply Chain Management, presented insights and…
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Supplier Spend Predictions and Forecasting: Best Practices
In these presentation slides, Bryan Baum, head of sourcing and procurement solutions at Anaplan, shares insights related to best practices for predicting and forecasting…
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2022 Supply Chain Priorities and Challenges
In these presentation slides, Marisa Brown, senior principal research lead for Supply Chain Management, presents insights and results from APQC’s eighth annual supply chain…
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APQC’s Mercy Harper and Marisa Brown talk with Anna Yona, founder and CEO of Wildling Shoes, about how her company achieves transparency and sustainability through…
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Optimizing Procure-to-Pay
On this podcast, APQC’s Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Marisa Brown share ways to improve procure-to-pay through process management. Click here to read a summary of the…
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Leading Practices in Procurement Transformation
Many have looked for improvements through new areas of focus like automation, strategic sourcing, and category management. But challenges remain, including unclear roles,…
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Benchmarking Sourcing and Procurement
Is your sourcing and procurement function efficient? Is it effective? How do your current practices compare to others? Members often come to APQC for benchmarks and…
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Are There Counterfeits In Your Supply Chain?
In 2020, counterfeits were estimated at $1.8 trillion or 6.8 percent of global trade. Did you know that one out of 20 parts imported into the U.S. is counterfeit? In this…
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Understanding Procurement Benchmarks and Best Practices
In this September 2020 webinar, learn from APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead, Marisa Brown, about insights in sourcing and procurement from recent APQC research. …
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2020 Supply Chain Priorities and Challenges
In this webinar, APQC presents the findings from its sixth annual supply chain priorities research and discusses some of the biggest priorities and challenges for supply…
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Transforming Procurement to Maximize Sustained Value
In this webinar, Marisa Brown (APQC) and Michael Van Keulen (former global procurement director at lululemon athletica) discuss the key ingredients in procurement…
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Identifying and Investing in Critical Skills for Procurement Success - Slides
In this 2019 webinar, APQC's Marisa Brown shares results from research into the most important skills needed for future success in procurement. The webinar focuses on…
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Reinventing Supplier Relationships: Shifting From Lowest Cost to Highest Value Presentation Slides
From an August 2019 webinar in supply chain management. Hear from supply chain experts Kate Vitasek, Bonnie Keith and Emmanuel Cambresy on how to best pick and work with your…
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Supply Management and Ethical Decision Making: Behavioral Experiments
From a May 2019 webinar hear Xenophon Koufteros, Professor at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University and Xingzhi Jia , P.h.D student at Texas A&M Business School, as they…