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 8,000 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Reports & White Papers|
2023 Supply Chain Priorities and Challenges Survey Report
APQC concluded its ninth annual Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research in early 2023. This survey report includes insights on organizations’ supply…
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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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In recent years, supply chain organizations have faced a shifting landscape that includes demand uncertainty, increasingly complex data management needs, and evolving…
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Three Steps for More Effective Customer Service
Through customer service research sponsored by Esker Inc. in August 2022, APQC discovered three important steps that any organization should make sure to carry out for…
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Optimizing Customer Service
APQC conducted research, sponsored by Esker Inc., to understand how organizations can enable better customer service and alleviate critical challenges facing both customer…
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Customer expectations have changed as a result of recent disruptions and global health concerns like the COVID-19 pandemic. Through its customer service research, APQC finds…
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Optimizing Customer Service Podcast Summary
In this article, Graham Smith from Esker Inc. and Marisa Brown from APQC discuss how organizations can optimize their customer service practices and processes. Leveraging…
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Data and Measures|
Optimizing Customer Service: Building Products/Construction Industry Survey Report
APQC conducted research, sponsored by Esker Inc., to understand how organizations can enable better customer service and alleviate critical challenges facing both customer…
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Data and Measures|
Optimizing Customer Service: Petroleum/Chemicals Industry Survey Report
APQC conducted research, sponsored by Esker Inc., to understand how organizations can enable better customer service and alleviate critical challenges facing both customer…
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Data and Measures|
Optimizing Customer Service: Pharmaceuticals Industry Survey Report
APQC conducted research, sponsored by Esker Inc., to understand how organizations can enable better customer service and alleviate critical challenges facing both customer…
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Data and Measures|
Optimizing Customer Service: Retail Industry Survey Report
APQC conducted research, sponsored by Esker Inc., to understand how organizations can enable better customer service and alleviate critical challenges facing both customer…
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Data and Measures|
Optimizing Customer Service: Electronics Industry Survey Report
APQC conducted research, sponsored by Esker Inc., to understand how organizations can enable better customer service and alleviate critical challenges facing both customer…
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Data and Measures|
Optimizing Customer Service: Industrial Equipment/Products Industry Survey Report
APQC conducted research, sponsored by Esker Inc., to understand how organizations can enable better customer service and alleviate critical challenges facing both customer…
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Podcasts|
Optimizing Customer Service Podcast
On this APQC podcast, Optimizing Customer Service, Graham Smith from Esker Inc. and Marisa Brown from APQC discuss how organizations can optimize their customer service…
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Reports & White Papers|
Optimizing Customer Service: White Paper
Customer service interactions are ‘moments of truth’ that provide customer service representatives with an opportunity to transform wary, skeptical, or dissatisfied customers…
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(1 - 5 of 96 Results)Retail on-shelf/in-stock availability rate
E-commerce sales as a percentage of retail sales
Number of FTEs that perform the process "manage sales orders" per $1 billion revenue
Percentage of total finance function FTEs allocated to the process "manage sales orders"
Personnel cost to perform the process "manage sales orders" per $1,000 revenue
