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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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This collection contains APQC's Key Benchmarks at a Glance reports for several functions and processes. These documents feature key performance indicators (KPIs) and…
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Total Cost of Supply Chain Planning
Supply chain planning begins with a solid understanding of organizational and business strategy and then translating that strategy into the full spectrum of supply chain…
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Supply Chain Planning Tune-Up Diagnostic
Examine the four essential metrics included in this diagnostic to ensure that your supply chain planning practices will keep you running ahead of the competition. APQC's…
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Benchmarking Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time
Data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in supply chain planning shows how organizations perform on cash-to-cash cycle time. Cash-to-cash cycle time looks at the number…
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Improving Supply Chain Planning
As the discipline continues to grow in maturity and importance, supply chain planning becomes even more complex. There are exponentially increasing inputs to account for in…
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Supply Chain Planning Key Performance Indicators
This collection of articles provides insights into key performance indicators (KPIs) and other important performance measures in supply chain planning.
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Interactive Supply Chain Planning Tune-Up Diagnostic
Compare your performance on essential supply chain planning metrics against that of your peers in this interactive spreadsheet. This tool includes data from APQC's Open…
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Supply Chain Management Tune-up Diagnostics
This collection features diagnostics with key metrics in supply chain planning, manufacturing, logistics, and procurement. APQC's tune-ups feature recent Open Standards…
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Supply Chain Resilience: Cross-Industry Report
In early 2025, APQC conducted research in supply chain resilience to learn from supply chain professionals about the current state of adoption of supply chain resilience…
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To objectively assess, manage, and compare supply chain planning practices and results, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes.APQC’s…
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Understanding Supply Chain Processes
To objectively assess, manage, and compare supply chain management performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s Process…
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Number of Supply Chain Planning Employees
Costs alone do not explain the totality of performance in supply chain planning; supply chain planning requires efficiency. This article includes data from APQC's Open…
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Supply Chain Planning Talent Management
Supply chain planning has made strides in becoming a strategic business partner in many organizations. Recognizing that supply chain can significantly impact the bottom line,…
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Supply Chain Planning Talent Management: Engineer-to-Order Capability Model
Supply chain planning has made strides in becoming a strategic business partner in many organizations. Recognizing that supply chain can significantly impact the bottom line,…
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Supply Chain Planning Talent Management: Retail Capability Model
Supply chain planning has made strides in becoming a strategic business partner in many organizations. Recognizing that supply chain can significantly impact the bottom line,…
Measure Spotlight Results
(1 - 5 of 49 Results)Number of manufacturing plants per $1 billion revenue
Percentage of strategic and operational decisions made primarily based on data analysis rather than based on other factors
Percentage of strategic and operational decisions made primarily based on data analysis that is supported by artificial intelligence / machine learning
Percentage of operational decisions made primarily based on analysis of real-time data
Average ROI on supply chain digital transformation investments over the past 3 years
