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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Category Management: Essential or Outdated?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

There is a tremendous opportunity to digitize and automate most, if not all, data collection: external supply market insights, internal data, perspectives from stakeholders, and other intelligence. Automating category management. All that insight is great, but what are you going to do with it?