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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Customer Credit and Invoicing Key Benchmarks: Retail and Wholesale 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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Getting the Most Out of Performance Measurement
Performance measurement can present tricky challenges for management, especially when dealing with cultural resistance. This collection of articles explains how to implement…
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Current State of Learning and Development Survey Report: Retail and Wholesale 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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Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks: Retail and Wholesale Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® in planning and management accounting, this table highlights planning and management accounting key performance…
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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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Accounts Payable Practices Report: Retail and Wholesale 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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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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Houston-based Zeppelin Coffee, an artisanal coffee roastery, has put sustainability at the core of its business model, leading the organization to develop new products that…
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2021 PPM Priorities and Challenges: Manufacturing Sector
This manufacturing sector specific report explores trends in process and performance work and reveals the top five priorities and challenges in process management,…
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Recently, APQC interviewed a large, multinational food and beverage manufacturing organization that faced the challenge of eliminating silos across languages and regional…
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Data and Measures|
Treasury Operations: Retail and Wholesale Industry Practices Spotlight Report
Prepared using APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® data in Treasury Operations, this report highlights qualitative performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks and practices for…
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Advances in technology and analytics present many opportunities to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of HR. The Trending Tools and Technologies in HR series uses APQC…
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Data and Measures|
Supply Chain Analytics in the Retail and Wholesale Industry
This retail and wholesale industry report shows the results from APQC's 2019 research into analytics and how it is used in various parts of the supply chain, how the efforts…
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Reports & White Papers|
Engagement & Employee Experience Survey Report: Retail and Wholesale Industry
Find out how organizations in the retail and wholesale industry are approaching engagement and the employee experience today. This industry-specific report, based on APQC's…