Positive Purchasing

MARCH 5, 2024

Approach Purchasing and Procurement Strategically, Effectively and Sustainably with Category Management. Category Management in Purchasing will help you source strategically and deliver profitability and new supply-side value effectively with a step-by-step guide to the tools, techniques and application of category management.

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Positive Purchasing

MAY 3, 2024

Category Management in Purchasing , now in its 5th edition, is a comprehensive and practical guide to approaching purchasing and procurement strategically, effectively, and sustainably through category management. Published by Kogan Page on 3 May 2024Paperback, £49.99/$59.99

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Una

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Buying Group versus Group Purchasing Organization. In the procurement and sourcing world, there are several terms that seem to be used interchangeably when attempting to increase buying power and save money: buying group, group purchasing organization, purchasing cooperative, purchasing group.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 26, 2019

Procurement (and Purchasing) Job Interview Questions & Answers. In these industries a segment of the Procurement organization is called Commodity Management. However when I entered the Retail industry the group largely responsible for Procurement, amongst other things, was called Category Management. Subscribe Here!

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Positive Purchasing

MARCH 4, 2025

By Jonathan OBrien with Stphane Morel In the ever-evolving landscape of procurement and supply chain management, category management remains a cornerstone. However, as technology advances and digital solutions become more integrated, the approach to category management is also transforming.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2021

Also, an eprocurement solution provides you with clean spend data, which is the basis for a sound spend analysis and eventually relevant category management. Think about all the users (requisitioners, approvers) of a P2P process and the amount of time they spend purchasing if the process is inefficient.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In today’s dynamic business landscape, category management in procurement has become an essential weapon for procurement teams seeking to optimize spend, strengthen supplier relationships, and drive growth. This is where category management in procurement emerges as a game-changer.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As the world continues to change at a rapid pace, category managers will need to be more nimble and adaptable than ever before. As a result, category managers must be prepared for continued evolution in shopping habits and be ready to adjust their strategies accordingly. Stay tuned! Key challenges.

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ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2023

As products are purchased within an organization, category managers can precisely track the year-to-date carbon emission trajectory for their purchases. This data is accessible across Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay solution to facilitate more sustainable procurement decisions within daily operations.

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Procurement Tactics

MARCH 16, 2023

It aims to ensure that the goods and services that the business needs are delivered on time and purchased within the budget. When strategic procurement is done correctly, it can help an organization to optimize its profit margin, reduce risks, and streamline the process of purchasing goods and services needed to achieve business goals.

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Future Purchasing

JANUARY 19, 2022

The application of category management is not something that arrives fully formed into our organisations but is a journey in the development of understanding and insights. We could do this ourselves by designing an evaluation approach or adopting available category management benchmarking.

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Procurement Freelancers

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Keeping a competitive edge in a fast-paced, globalized economy is crucial, and long lead times… The post How Strategic Purchasing Reduces Lead Times with Supplier Collaboration first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Procurement Software

AUGUST 27, 2024

The Procurement Category Manager role has been the backbone of the procurement profession over the past 20 years. In addition, supply chains and risk management have become more complex, requiring a less siloed and more joined-up approach to managing strategic suppliers. So, how will this impact category management?

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Future Purchasing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Category management is the strategic end-to-end process for managing categories of related supplier spend that aligns business goals and requirements with supply market capability. Effective internal cross-functional working is the foundation of successful category management. Business requirements.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

And What is Purchasing? Despite the magnitude of this cost however there is a wide range of focus put on managing this expenditure from proactive and strategic to reactive and tactical. In some cases there is a great level of planning applied before a single purchase order is placed. How do you manage your materials spend?

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Future Purchasing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A common challenge area for category teams is understanding the breadth of content that a category management strategy should contain. However, an excellent category management strategy will address many aspects of the business which surround the most effective acquisition and use of a set of products or services.

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Jaggaer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

When procurement thinks about why they might implement a category management pro cess , the reasons that come to mind are likely to involve more effective management of spend or having increased time to invest in strategic supplier relationships. Evaluating the relevant risks in the supply chain for each category.

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Positive Purchasing

MAY 19, 2022

Philip Ideson, former procurement delivery leader for Accenture and creator of Art of Procurement , the #1 weekly procurement podcast, explores whether category management remains an essential function for procurement organizations – or not. Only procurement thinks of products and services as categories, and that is okay.

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Sourcing and Supply Chain

JUNE 24, 2021

Category Management is the concept of the Retail industry that helps for better management as well as sales of a similar category of product by bundling the same. It results in specialization in category for a buyer and ends up in a better deal with saving time, resources, and money. It is given in the below table.

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Positive Purchasing

MARCH 20, 2024

Can Digital Category Management Enhance Efficiency Without Sacrificing Human integrity? This is a great complementary solution which can be used alongside tools like Capella , our guided category strategy creator®, and Ruby , our guided negotiation plan creator ®.

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Positive Purchasing

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Can Digital Category Management Enhance Efficiency Without Sacrificing Human integrity? We’re tackling this of-the-moment topic during our upcoming webinar, Digital Category Management – Is it Robust, Faster and Better? , Tick box Category Management’ is a thing of the past.

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Positive Purchasing

JULY 27, 2023

Realize the benefits of Category Management and how to implement sustainable procurement Our CEO and sustainability expert, Jonathan O’Brien will deliver a live seminar on the topic of Category Management and Sustainability at an upcoming hybrid event. Register below to secure your free place.

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Future Purchasing

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Build category management coaching capability and unlock your team’s full potential. Well, there is, but for many, it’s been hiding in plain sight, building an internal business category management coaching capability. Often overlooked, however, is the potential for coaching to be used as a management tool from within.

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Future Purchasing

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It is well worth reflecting on any insights that living through such times provides, with this in mind here are my lessons for category managers for 2021. At a personal level, the need to look after our own well-being, amongst the turmoil of the past twelve months, has stood out as something to try to manage. Looking forward.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 16, 2025

Fewer Emails Procurement teams typically manage more suppliers than Sales teams do customers. Dealing with all of these contracts, sourcing events and purchase requests simultaneously, without a digital solution, results in email overload. These repetitive tasks not only consume valuable time, but also increase the risk of human error.

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Positive Purchasing

OCTOBER 24, 2024

At Positive Purchasing, we recognize that data foundation is a problem for procurement. Category owners and leaders often struggle to get clear visibility into what’s happening across the organization. Contact our team today to learn how Mithra-Ai and Positive Purchasing can help transform your procurement function.

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Procurement Heads

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The top of the agenda for procurement is to deliver decarbonisation, particularly through Scope 2 emissions (indirect from purchased energy) and Scope 3 emissions (indirect from purchased materials and services). Are you looking to hire a Category Manager? Get in touch with the team here.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 7, 2019

Defining Category Management. Category management has a decades-long history that has lead us to our modern understanding of procurement categories. Created in the 1980s, category management was originally the process of grouping products into categories based on how consumers used them.

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The Good Spending

APRIL 3, 2022

Category management is the brain and spine of strategic procurement. Procurement largely relies on category management in its constant endeavor to transform transactional purchasing into a value-creation machine. Category management is an integral part of the "plan-to-procure" cycle.

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Positive Purchasing

AUGUST 1, 2024

Here at Positive Purchasing we are delighted to report a significant step towards our goal of being the only digital platform provider to offer ‘everything you need for strategic procurement outside your P2P system’ within our Procleus ecosystem. We are very pleased to announce our new tech partnership with Forestreet !

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Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 25, 2022

Omid Ghamami is one of the most globally recognized thought leaders in the field of purchasing and sales negotiations. Thereby making him the world’s most sought-after purchasing and supply chain management author, speaker, consultant, and trainer. He is known as “the secret weapon of fortune 500 chief purchasing officers”. .

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 31, 2025

The benefits of organizing the purchase of goods and services into categories in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness, whether its related to component parts or finished products, can be game-changing. Artificial intelligence presents a powerful set of tools to get on top of it the most common problems.

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Una

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

When was the last time you took a good, hard look at your category management strategy? A fresh, dynamic category strategy is essential for driving continuous improvement and making sure your procurement efforts are truly adding value to your organization. Partnering with a group purchasing organization (GPO).

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Big data and digital technologies support the aggregation of purchases across business units to improve performance, provide better spend analysis, and drive business value. Category management: Whereas spend management aims to depict the entire landscape, category management fills in the detail for each major spend category.

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Procurement Heads

JUNE 23, 2022

My core goals are in the transformation of an organisation’s finance and purchasing processes. This ranges from category management, business process reengineering to cost management, and the implementation of end-to-end ERP systems.

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Positive Purchasing

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Capella – The Guided Category Strategy Creator : powered by AI, Capella is built on the proven 5i Category Management method for breakthrough category strategies. appeared first on Positive - Procurement transformation, expert training for improved purchasing and procurement.

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Procurement Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

“The last couple of years have really shown businesses the value of procurement – and not just as a purchasing function/PO function, but the strategy of procurement and the value we bring in managing risk,” she says. ” Stroup says. “I don’t need 10 subject-matter experts in a team of 10.

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