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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|
Key Benchmarks for Common Quality Measures: Industrial Products Industry
Although an undeniably useful measure, the total cost of quality only focuses on one aspect of quality, costs: preventive, appraisal, internal failure, and external failures…
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Data and Measures|
Supply Chain Planning Practices: Industrial Products Industry
APQC conducts ongoing research on supply chain planning designed to help organizations assess the structure and performance of their own supply chain planning function…
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Supply Chain Planning Practices: Cross-Industry
APQC conducts ongoing research on supply chain planning designed to help organizations assess the structure and performance of their own supply chain planning function…
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Payroll Key Benchmarks: Industrial Products Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Process payroll” includes…
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Payroll Key Benchmarks: Food and Beverage Manufacturers Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Process payroll” includes…
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Data and Measures|
2022 Supply Chain Challenges and Priorities: Industrial Products 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|
Contact Center Key Benchmarks: Industrial Products Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s contact center processes by benchmarking common business activities (Hierarchy ID: 6.2 in APQC’s…
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Data and Measures|
Order-to-Cash: Managing for Success in Disruptive Times in the Industrial Products Industry
APQC and DSCI conducted a survey in the fall of 2021 to learn how organizations are handling the order-to-cash (O2C) process in terms of governing, measuring, automating, and…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Industrial Products
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes chip away at an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they can hurt innovation and competitive…
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Articles|
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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Articles|
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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Reports & White Papers|
10 Steps to Get a KM Program Off the Ground
Speed to results is critical for any fledgling knowledge management program. The faster KM can switch from planning to execution and start delivering value to the business,…
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Collections|
Accounts Receivable and Collections Key Benchmarks
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Perform revenue accounting”…
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Data and Measures|
Accounts Receivable and Collections Key Benchmarks: Food and Beverage Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Perform revenue accounting”…
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Data and Measures|
Accounts Receivable and Collections Key Benchmarks: Industrial Products Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Perform revenue accounting”…
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