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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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Data and Measures|
Accounts Payable Key Benchmarks: Pharmaceutical Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in accounts payable, this table highlights financial management key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for…
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Data and Measures|
Digital and Its Role in Process: Manufacturing Industry Report
In February of 2024, APQC conducted a survey to understand how digital tools and technologies impact process and performance management (PPM) professionals and the…
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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Practices Report: Media & Entertainment Industry
This report summarizes practices in the Media & Entertainment Industry related to IT strategy and governance, methodologies and processes, focus areas, and maturity from APQC…
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Process Classification Framework|
APQC Process Classification Framework (PCF) – Life Sciences PCF - PDF Version 6.1.0
Effective benchmarking requires common definitions and processes. Like a shared language, organizations need to make apples-to-apples comparisons to obtain accurate…
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Data and Measures|
Business Process Management Maturity Benchmarks: Agriculture Industry
This report was prepared with data from APQC's Business Process Management Maturity Assessment Tool (BPM MAT). The BPM MAT allows agriculture organizations to assess their…
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Data and Measures|
2022 Supply Chain Challenges and Priorities: Agriculture Industry
APQC concluded its eighth annual Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research in early 2022. The purpose of this research was to learn about organizations’…
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Data and Measures|
Understanding Sustainability Programs: Services Sector
Environment is touted as the next big disruptor organizations should prepare for. In October 2021, APQC conducted a survey to understand the scope of sustainability in…
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Data and Measures|
Talent Development Practices: Services Industry Report
This report explores practices used by organizations that completed APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® Talent Development Survey in 2021. Topics include talent strategy, buy…
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Choosing the right quality methodologies is critical for organizations ability to mature their processes, think strategically, and grow their value. But how can organizations…
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Webinars & Videos|
Launching the Right Quality Initiatives
With so many quality methodologies—like Lean, DMAIC, and Six Sigma—at your fingertips, how do you choose the right one for your organization? Paul Orton discusses how…
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Presentation Slides|
Launching the Right Quality Initiatives
With so many quality methodologies—like Lean, DMAIC, and Six Sigma—at your fingertips, how do you choose the right one for your organization? Paul Orton discusses how…
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Case Study|
Building Supply Chain Agility at AGCO
A global agricultural equipment manufacturer, AGCO has operations across regions hard-hit by COVID-19. Yet its supply chain has been resilient. Greg Toornman—global vice…
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The nature of finance work is rapidly changing. As automation and other advanced technologies reduce the need for humans to complete some finance tasks, other factors—such as…
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Case Study|
Transforming Credit-to-Cash at Cargill
Cargill Inc. is the largest privately-held company in the United States by revenue ($114.7 billion in 2018) and has approximately 166,000 employees working in 70 countries…
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AGCO, a public company with over $9 billion in revenues, manufactures and distributes agricultural equipment and replacement parts throughout the world. AGCO needed to…