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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 8,200 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Understanding Procurement Benchmarks and Best Practices
This collection is your road map to success in managing procurement efficiency and effectiveness. The content within will teach you about key performance indicators (KPIs)…
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To objectively assess, manage, and compare procurement performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s Process…
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Each year, APQC carries out a survey to ask supply chain professionals about their organizations’ key priorities and focus areas for the coming year. For 2025, respondents…
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Leading organizations have broad visibility across their entire supply chains with relationships with second- and third-tier suppliers that enable them to better understand…
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Global disruptions have led to changes in procurement in recent years. These changes have necessitated improvements in procurement organizations such as implementing stronger…
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Organizations are steadily building resilience against supply chain risk. Through survey research carried out with 316 global organizations, we found that nearly all…
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Now in the Resource Library: Supply Chain Management
This report offers an overview of APQC's Resource Library content in supply chain management published in late 2023 and 2024.You can also find direct links to various…
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Procurement operates in an uncertain environment in which disruptions pose a constant threat to supply chains. While it is important to have these tactics in your playbook…
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APQC’s Sourcing and Procurement: 2024 Blueprint for Success is a guide for achieving best-practice performance. It details how procurement processes and activities relate to…
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Sourcing and Procurement: 2024 Blueprint for Success
APQC’s Sourcing and Procurement: 2024 Blueprint for Success is a guide for achieving best-practice performance. It details how procurement processes and activities relate to…
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Few terms are more popular and confusing than "Sustainability." Everyone is using it, but what does it mean? In this article, APQC provides a holistic definition plus…
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Next-Generation Supplier Relationship Management
Much work has been done building good supplier relationship management (SRM) programs. As more companies embrace and adopt SRM best practices, it’s time to look holistically…
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The Human Side of the SRM Equation
Supplier relationship management (SRM) is particularly crucial in today’s world of supply chain upheaval. Development of SRM tools using AI and other advanced technologies is…
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APQC’s research—conducted in partnership with supplier relationship management (SRM) experts Kate Vitasek, Bonnie Keith, and Emmanuel Cambresy—shows that although there are…
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Reinventing Supplier Relationship Management
APQC’s research—conducted in partnership with supplier relationship management (SRM) experts Kate Vitasek, Bonnie Keith, and Emmanuel Cambresy—shows that although there are…
