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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 8,000 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Data and Measures|
Planning and Management Accounting: Agile Methodology - Industrial Products Industry Report
APQC prepares industrial products industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set…
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Data and Measures|
Planning and Management Accounting: Sustainability - Industrial Products Industry Report
APQC prepares industrial products industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set…
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Data and Measures|
Planning and Management Accounting: Process and Data Maturity - Industrial Products Industry Report
APQC prepares industrial products industry specific views of key performance indicators to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set of measures. The focus of…
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Process Classification Framework|
APQC Process Classification Framework (PCF) - Corrosion - PDF Version 1.1.1
APQC's Process Classification Framework® (PCF) is a taxonomy of business processes that allows organizations to objectively track and compare their performance internally and…
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Data and Measures|
2023 Process and Performance Management Priorities and Challenges: Manufacturing Sector
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2023. This report looks at the top…
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Data and Measures|
Finance Organization Key Benchmarks: Industrial Products Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking for the finance organization, this article highlights key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations…
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Data and Measures|
2022 Process and Performance Management Priorities and Challenges: Manufacturing Sector
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2022. This report looks at the top…
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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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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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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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Data and Measures|
Cost Accounting and Management Practices: Industrial Products Industry Spotlight
APQC conducts ongoing Open Standards Benchmarking® survey research to help organizations benchmark and improve their processes. The research gathers metric data (cost,…
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Reports & White Papers|
Using Knowledge-Sensitive Measures to Evaluate KM's Impact in STEM Disciplines
This white paper explains how STEM fields track knowledge acquisition and application and how knowledge management (KM) programs can align with this measurement approach to…
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Knowledge management (KM) has a natural affinity with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. However, STEM workers themselves may not know what KM is,…
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Data and Measures|
Supply Chain Analytics in the Manufacturing Industry
This manufacturing 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 are…
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This executive summary outlines five best practices to embed knowledge and KM activities in the natural flow of employees' work. The recommendations focus on targeting the…
Measure Spotlight Results
(1 - 5 of 3351 Results)Cycle time in days to complete the annual budget
Cycle time in days to prepare the financial forecast
Number of budget versions produced before final approval
Number of FTEs that perform the process "evaluate and manage financial performance" per $1 billion revenue
Number of FTEs that perform the processes "perform cost accounting and control" and "perform cost management" per $1 billion revenue
