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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Collaboration Approaches for Supply Chain
Many supply chain leaders want to facilitate collaboration, but do not know where to start or how to select the best tool/approach for a given scenario. This guide is…
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APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® in logistics indicates that organizations are still trying to find the right balance between carrying enough inventory and minimizing…
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Founded in October 1997, National Aerospace Fasteners Corporation (NAFCO) has been focusing on technology, optimizing manufacturing processes, and providing high-quality…
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Case Study|
Building a Collective Mindset: Operationalizing a Governance Structure for a Global Supply Chain Network
This case study outlines how to establish a central governance structure across a supply chain network of different companies and organizations working together. It is…
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Supply Chain Planning Performance Drivers
From APQC’s Supply Chain Planning: Blueprint for Success, these articles describe performance drivers for better supply chain planning results.
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MOXA is a leading serial devices manufacturer and one of the top three industrial communication devices manufacturers. This case study, provided courtesy of APQC member PwC…
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Case Study|
Sales and Operations Planning at Tata Steel Europe
APQC interviewed Julia Bramble, the director of business planning, and Svend Lassen, the head of reporting and data analytics, about Tata Steel Europe’s sales and operations…
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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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Even in the most ideal market scenarios, organizations need to be able to react quickly to change and want their supply chains to be responsive and nimble. This now…
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APQC’s research in supply chain planning has found that mature supply chains that support omnichannel commerce strategies enable greater flexibility and faster customer order…
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It’s mutually beneficial for the supply chain and suppliers to work together to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Whereas coordination with suppliers is widely…
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APQC’s research in supply chain planning has found that the most pressing challenges in supply chain planning often concern data: data quality, data collection and…
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Presentation Slides|
How to Improve Supply Chain Planning
In this July 2020 webinar, APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead, Marisa Brown, discusses insights from APQC's newly updated Blueprint for Success: Supply Chain Planning and…
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Case Study|
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…