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Blueprint for Success: Logistics

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: American Productivity & Quality Center
Published: December 2006
Product Code: R166-63
Description
Begin to view logistics as the key to gain a competitive advantage and discover how to use logistics functions and supporting processes to profoundly impact your organization's bottom line in Blueprint for Success: Logistics.

Achieve best-practice performance levels in logistics with the help of APQC's Blueprint for Success series. Included you will find a framework for logistics activities and how they relate to the enterprise; key measures for executive, managerial, and operational views of performance; the latest benchmarks for performance; and in-depth case studies demonstrating how leading organizations have achieved their performance levels.

KEY FINDINGS

  • Best practice organizations have a high rate of orders shipped on time and complete.
  • There is a direct correlation between order fill rate and inventory accuracy.
  • Order cycle time denotes organization's ability to fulfill orders promptly and meet consumer demand.
  • Cost measures must be balanced with measures that target customer service levels.
  • Top performers have a cost per order that is more than $552 less per order than those that are performing in the bottom quartile.
  • According to research between 15 percent and 20 percent of all orders have some form of failure.
This publication is available via electronic download only.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Logistics’ Strategic View
Process Classification Framework (PCF)
Key Performance Indicators
Benchmarks and Process Performance Drivers
Case Studies
  • Arrow Electronics, Inc.
  • ATC Logistics & Electronics
  • Deere & Company
  • Office Depot

Appendix 1
  • PCF Section 4.0 Deliver Products and Services

Appendix 2
  • Procurement Measures (PCF 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4)
  • Customer Order Management Measures (PCF 3.6, 4.5.5)
  • Logistics Measures (PCF 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.5.4, 4.5.5)
  • Manufacturing Measures (PCF 4.3)
  • New Product Development Measures (PCF 2.1)
  • Supply Chain Planning Measures (PCF 4.1)

Appendix 3
  • Open Standards Methodology

Appendix 4
  • Glossary of Terms
Ordering and More Information
Price and Delivery Options


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