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Procurement Key Benchmarks: Services Industry
Featuring data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) in Procurement, this article provides key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations in the…
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Procurement Key Benchmarks
Featuring data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in Procurement, these articles highlight the median performance level on important procurement benchmarks for…
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Procurement Technology and Automation: Services Industry, Procurement Practices Report
APQC conducts research on supply chain and procurement to help organizations assess the performance of their own processes and functions compared to their peers. This survey…
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Procurement Supplier Risk Management: Services Industry, Procurement Practices Report
APQC conducts research on supply chain and procurement to help organizations assess the performance of their own processes and functions compared to their peers. This survey…
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Procurement Purchasing Profile: Services Industry, Procurement Practices Report
APQC conducts research on supply chain and procurement to help organizations assess the performance of their own processes and functions compared to their peers. This survey…
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Procurement Strategy and Structure: Services Industry, Procurement Practices Report
APQC conducts research on supply chain and procurement to help organizations assess the performance of their own processes and functions compared to their peers. This survey…
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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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Procure-to-Pay: Structure and Automation Report: Services Industry
In response to increasing global interest in end-to-end processes, APQC undertook this research in 2021 to get some insights into how organizations are managing their procure…
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Transforming Quote-to-Cash at IBM
IBM optimized opportunity-to-order (O2O) and order-to-cash (O2C), but still struggled with data availability and cycle times due to the handoff between these processes. IBM…
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The COVID-19 pandemic was marked by wide-ranging supply chain shortages for medical equipment, ranging from PPE and gloves to respirators and other critical products. It also…
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2021 Supply Chain Challenges and Priorities: Services Industry
This industry specific report shares results from APQC's seventh annual supply chain priorities and challenges research. Gain insights from 455 organizations into top areas…
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Supply Chain Management Blueprints for Success Reports
This collection features content from the following APQC's Blueprint for Success reports in supply chain planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics.
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By fostering fruitful supplier relationships and designing strategically focused outcomes, sourcing and procurement professionals now play a central role in addressing supply…
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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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AGCO, a public company with over $9 billion in revenues, manufactures and distributes agricultural equipment and replacement parts throughout the world. AGCO needed to…