American Productivity and Quality Center
A member based nonprofit devoted to benchmarking, best practices, and process improvement research, generating the comparative data and process frameworks that organizations use to measure and improve how they work.
Peer societies
Five societies American Productivity and Quality Center is read alongside.
ASQ
American Society for Quality
A professional society for the quality discipline that owns the body of knowledge and certifications, from…
27 companies named
NAHQ
National Association for Healthcare Quality
The professional body for the healthcare quality field, defining the competencies of the discipline and…
SQA
Society of Quality Assurance
A professional society for quality assurance practitioners in regulated research, advancing good practice…
25 companies named
WERC
Warehousing Education and Research Council
A professional association focused solely on warehousing and distribution operations, advancing the practice…
IORMS
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
The professional society for operations research, analytics, and management science, home to leading journals…
24 companies named
Who backs APQC
Every company American Productivity and Quality Center names publicly as a supporter, exactly as published. Companies also named by other associations on Sociogene come first.
| Company | Support as published | Also named by |
|---|---|---|
| Cognizant | Other | CSTA CBA L NGA NRF +2 |
| ScottMadden | Other | EEI |
| Esker Inc. | Other | Only American Productivity and Quality Center, so far |
Sources: 1 published list, read September 2026
Past Sponsored Research Projects. Read September 28, 2026. Sponsors of APQC research studies and white papers; page is undated.
Who backs American Productivity and Quality Center's peers, but not American Productivity and Quality Center
Companies named publicly by at least one of American Productivity and Quality Center's five peer societies, and not found in American Productivity and Quality Center's reviewed public records.
| Company | ASQ | SQA | IORMS | Peers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compliance Quest-Exhibitor-Logo | Platinum | Silver Supporters | 2 of 3 | |
| ZenQMS WCQI 2023 | Gold | Platinum Supporters | 2 of 3 | |
| 11Compliance Consulting Exhibitor Logo | Silver | 1 of 3 | ||
| Adamas | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| AlisQI Exhibitor Logo | Silver | 1 of 3 | ||
| Amazon | DIAMOND | 1 of 3 | ||
| AMPL | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Arena Sponsor Logo | Supporting | 1 of 3 | ||
| Arteyls | BRONZE | 1 of 3 | ||
| Autodesk Exhibitor Logo | Platinum | 1 of 3 | ||
| Axion Full Logo | Platinum | 1 of 3 | ||
| BecomeMore Group Sponsor Logo | Supporting | 1 of 3 | ||
| Beijing XiaoTongMingDa Technology Ltd. (Hannah and Associates) | Gold Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| BlueSky Statistics Sponsor Logo | Supporting | 1 of 3 | ||
| Boeing Logo | Supporting | 1 of 3 | ||
| BPA | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| BSI Group Exhibitor Logo | Silver | 1 of 3 | ||
| CAP | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| Chain Research Consulting | Bronze Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| Charles River Laboratories | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| CIMCON | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| Citadel CSEC | PLATINUM | 1 of 3 | ||
| copt | SILVER | 1 of 3 | ||
| Dekra-Exhibitor-Logo | Silver | 1 of 3 | ||
| Deltek Sponsor Logo | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| Dot Compliance Inc. | Gold Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| Dynamic Ideas | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| EASE.io logo | Supporting | 1 of 3 | ||
| FDAQRC | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| FICO | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Food SMART Strategies Exhibitor Logo | Supporting | 1 of 3 | ||
| GAMS | SILVER | 1 of 3 | ||
| Gurobi | GOLD | 1 of 3 | ||
| GXP Engaged | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| Harbor Clinical | Silver Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| hexaly | DIAMOND | 1 of 3 | ||
| Inotive | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| inSeption Group | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| Interfacing Sponsor Logo | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| JMP Statistical Discovery | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Kivo | Silver Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| MasterControl | Gold Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| MathWorks | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| MDPI | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Minitab | Silver | 1 of 3 | ||
| MOSEK | BRONZE | 1 of 3 | ||
| OAT | BRONZE | 1 of 3 | ||
| ObelysQ | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| Octave Exhibitor Logo | Platinum | 1 of 3 | ||
| Omnex Logo | Silver | 1 of 3 | ||
| Palgrave Macmillan | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Peak Avenue Logo | Supporting | 1 of 3 | ||
| Pensive Grader | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Pharmatek Solutions | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| Princeton Consultants | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| ProPharma | Gold Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| Prospect Press | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Provalis Research | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| PSC-Exhibitor-Logo | Silver | 1 of 3 | ||
| QACV Consulting | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| QHub Logo | Supporting | 1 of 3 | ||
| Qi Macros-Exhibitor-Logo | Supporting | 1 of 3 | ||
| QMS Certification Exhibitor Logo | Silver | 1 of 3 | ||
| Quality Assurance Consultancy | Gold Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| Quality Auditing LLC | Silver Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| Qualityze Sponsor Logo | Silver | 1 of 3 | ||
| Responsive Learning Technologies | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| RiverArk Ltd | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| sas | GOLD | 1 of 3 | ||
| Springer | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Taylor & Francis | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| TrackMedium Exhibitor Logo | Supporting | 1 of 3 | ||
| Zigzag | Platinum Supporters | 1 of 3 | ||
| Zoetis | Bronze Supporters | 1 of 3 |
The outside view
A member based nonprofit devoted to benchmarking, best practices, and process improvement research, generating the comparative data and process frameworks that organizations use to measure and improve how they work.
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