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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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When customers place an order, they expect perfection. Having grown accustomed to ever-faster order deliveries, customers have high expectations that every order will be…
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Reduce Scrap and Rework Costs
Scrap and rework is an important metric to track in manufacturing. Use this document to compare your organization's performance against over 870 other organizations worldwide…
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In late 2022, APQC carried out a quick poll of 278 manufacturing organizations about the use of advanced analytics in supply chain. ‘Advanced analytics’ refers to technology…
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Big Data and Advanced Analytics in Supply Chain Quick Poll Summary Report
APQC conducts periodic quick polls in supply chain to collect information from supply chain professionals about the use and planned adoption of emerging technologies and key…
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Big Data and Advanced Analytics: 2022 Current State
This infographic highlights data APQC collected in late 2022 from global supply chain professionals about the current state of Big Data & Advanced Analytics in supply chains…
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How to Pick the Right Supply Chain Measures
In a field driven by precision and efficiency, supply chain organizations are looking for the right measures to track their performance and indicate opportunities for…
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On this podcast, APQC’s Mercy Harper talks with Dave Applegate, founder of ImportYeti, about his super-popular supply chain visualization tool and what he’s learned from the…
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At the end of 2021, APQC conducted its annual Supply Chain Challenges and Priorities survey. Each year APQC surveys a group of globally diverse, cross-industry supply chain…
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Interactive Sales Order Processing Tune-Up Diagnostic
Compare your essential sales order metrics against your peers in this interactive spreadsheet. This tool includes the latest data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in…
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Getting Started with Sustainability
This article was developed from ideas shared on the APQC Talks Sustainability webinar. For additional resources, see APQC’s Sustainability collection.
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2020 Supply Chain Management Webinars
APQC hosts supply chain management (SCM) webinars to connect with our members. Some calls feature internal experts discussing APQC's research and findings. For other calls,…
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Productivity Metrics: Finance, Human Resources, Supply Chain
APQC’s Process and Performance Management (PPM) team examined some of the most common productivity metrics and KPIs within Financial Management (FM), Human Capital Management…
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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…
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In February of 2020, APQC hosted Nada Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, on a supply…
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Since 2016, organizations have increased their investment in supply chain analytics. As a result, they now have more effective analytics programs and are more satisfied with…