Benchmarking Reports

CAPS Research benchmarking is a continuous and systematic process for evaluating performance, and each individual benchmark serves as a standard to evaluate one's performance against the performance of others.

Detailed narrative reports are provided to CAPS Research sponsors as well as companies who subscribe to our benchmarking programs. Contact us at metrics@capsresearch.org if you would like more information on participating in any of our benchmarking programs.

  CPO Insights

CPO Insights is an email-based service for chief procurement officers (CPOs) of firms that are major corporate sponsors of CAPS Research.

A CPO sends a procurement-related question to CAPS Research. The question is then sent to the CPOs of all major corporate sponsors and CPOs who wish to respond reply with their answers/insights directly to CAPS Research. The responses are collected and the aggregated responses are distributed to all CPOs within 13 business days.

Only for CPOs of CAPS Research current major sponsors.

  Critical Issues Reports

Critical Issues Reports are the output of Critical Issues Partnership Events and include research and case studies on select procurement and supply topics. While event attendance is for sponsor companies and select invitees, all the Reports are available to the public, published in electronic format on the CAPS Research web site.

  Focus Studies

CAPS Research commissions subject-matter experts globally to address these issues, in a format that includes executive summaries, practical advice for strategies to adopt, case studies, and statistics to back up the conclusions. These 30-to-160-page reports contain a wealth of information for you to implement your next strategy.

  Practix

PRACTIX cases are based on interviews and data collected by CAPS Research at company locations. The cases are selected by CAPS Research based on preliminary information about successful practices and processes.

Knowledge Central
A website for current sponsors of CAPS Research

Knowledge Central is a searchable archive of all CAPS Research studies, leading-edge practices, benchmarking reports, CPO Insights and best-practices presentations. Sponsors are able to access all CAPS Research publications by resource type, supply management topics, the CAPS Research leadership model, or CAPSearch, our advanced search tool.

W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University

Knowledge@W. P. Carey is a bi-weekly online resource that offers the latest business insights, information and research from a variety of sources. These include analysis of current business trends, interviews with industry leaders and W. P. Carey faculty, articles based on the most recent business research, book reviews, conference and seminar reports, and links to other websites.

The W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University is one of the largest business schools in the United States with 190 faculty, and more than 1,400 graduate and 2,400 upper-division undergraduate students.

Institute for Supply Management™

Inside Supply Management® is ISM's monthly publication produced as a benefit for ISM's members. The magazine provides thought-provoking discussion and information on those topics most relevant to today's forward-thinking, strategic supply managers.

The Journal of Supply Chain Management is the quarterly publication written specifically for and by purchasing professionals and educators. The Journal provides an in-depth analysis of new purchasing strategies and business techniques by some of the world's leading educators and business executives.

International Conference Proceedings — Proceedings are published yearly containing workshop content.