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Business Process Management at Air Products and Chemicals Inc.
Category: Professions and Industries, IT Management
Overview Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (APCI) has different processes in various areas of the world, and its ongoing attempt to converge and simplify these processes involves 19,900 employees in 30 countries. Leaders are now working to ensure those with similar jobs perform them in a similar way as a means to drive efficiency and effectiveness. APCI, a best-practice organization highlighted in the Best-practice Report "Business Process Management," recently shared with APQC how it gained a process focus.
- Publisher
- APQC
- File Format
- Date Published
- Nov 6, 2006
- Format
- Case Studies
- Topics
- IT Manufacturing, Performance Budgeting and Management, Financial Management, Procurement and Sourcing, Finance, Sales - Marketing, Procurement - Purchasing, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Enterprise Architecture, ROI - TCO, Infrastructure Management, Strategic Planning, Resources Mgmt., Customer Support Services
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