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Category management is much more than strategic sourcing

Future Purchasing

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. It creates cost efficiencies across spend categories and minimises supply risks through improved supplier selection.

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Category Management: Essential or Outdated?

Positive Purchasing

Now is a good time to step back and realize, if we’d thought strategically about this category, done a business continuity plan at category level, and invested in scenario planning related to systemic risks, we would have been better prepared.