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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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Expense Reimbursement Practices Report: Petroleum/Chemical Industry
APQC conducts ongoing survey research on expense reimbursement performance to help organizations assess the structure, performance, and practice of their finance functions…
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Customer Credit and Invoicing Key Benchmarks: Industrial Products Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in customer invoicing and credit, this table highlights financial management customer invoicing and credit key…
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Current State of Learning and Development Survey Report: Petroleum/Chemical Industry
In the first half of 2023, APQC launched a research study to understand how organizations are approaching learning and development (L&D) today. L&D leaders from across the…
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Accounts Payable Practices Report: Petroleum/Chemical Industry
APQC conducts ongoing survey research on accounts payable and expense reimbursement performance to help organizations assess the structure, performance, and practice of their…
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Keep BPM Visible to Senior Leaders
Research consistently proves that increased leadership involvement results in greater change and buy-in for improvement initiatives. BPM needs executive-level sponsorship to…
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Developing an enterprise-wide process model is a daunting task, particularly for large, complex organizations. This article offers four best practices to guide your efforts…
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Funding for Business Process Management
Learn how best-practice organizations allocate funds to business process management (BPM). Based on APQC research, this article explains how resources, funds, and reporting…
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APQC interviewed Steven Slate, Senior Process Analyst, and Chris Yardley, Team Leader of Business and Process Analysis, about PNNL’s process management journey. Read this…
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Swagelok founded a knowledge management (KM) program to increase knowledge sharing among its sales and service centers, but the initial effort did not have the right strategy…
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Recently, APQC interviewed Carmen Lim, the order to cash global process adviser for Chevron Lubricants’ U.S. operations and product owner for Chevron Lubricants’ Agile team,…
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Transformation in Order-to-Cash at Ecolab Indonesia
Ecolab, a global provider of water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services, is in the process of centralizing and standardizing key processes in order to…
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KM and Covid-19: Stories from the Front Line
In the crises and chaos of 2020, KM teams have taken on the role of "first responder" to help their organizations adapt. KM has jumped in to close information gaps, solve…
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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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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…