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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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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Approved Provider Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Approved Provider sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use…
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Research has shown that many, if not most, of the world's most-used sourcing strategies are incomplete for modern procurement challenges. In this article, Kate Vitasek and…
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As organizations increasingly embrace a process-focused operating model, end-to-end global process owners (GPOs) have become a key role in the management and development of…
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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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Inventory Optimization: Show Me the Money
How can your organization optimize inventory to avoid excessive carrying costs and still satisfy demand? This article looks at the key components of inventory optimization as…
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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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Articles|
Picking the Right Logistics Measures
Organizations are looking for the right logistics measures to track their performance and indicate opportunities for improvement. This article states how organizations can…
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Webinars & Videos|
What Are Procurement Best Practices?
Procurement best practices begin by standardizing processes and eliminating challenges like maverick buying. Marisa Brown, APQC Senior Principal Research Lead for Supply…
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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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Webinars & Videos|
Understanding Procurement Benchmarks and Best Practices
In this September 2020 webinar, learn from APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead, Marisa Brown, about insights in sourcing and procurement from recent APQC research. …
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Presentation Slides|
Understanding Procurement Benchmarks and Best Practices
In this September 2020 webinar, learn from APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead, Marisa Brown, about insights in sourcing and procurement from recent APQC research. …
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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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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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