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The death of category management?

Procurement Leaders

A couple of weeks ago, Procurement Leaders held a CPO Connect Call entitled “the death of category management” It was well attended – as one might expect, given the emotive title – with great discussion and debate about what the future might hold for the process.

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Procurement Category Management for Business

ProcurePort

The procurement category management process is the intentional action by a company to divide its procurement spend into segments with related items. The post Procurement Category Management for Business appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Category Management Tactics and Execution

ProcurePort

The post Category Management Tactics and Execution appeared first on ProcurePort Blog. However, the greats, the grandmasters and prodigy’s, they all play these matches far, far more quickly than that. See, in the mental landscape of a chess grandmaster, they are likely playing the game 10 or 15, or even 20 moves […].

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The Golden Rules of Category Management Strategy

ProcurePort

Some of the problems experienced in category management include plenty of work, lack of time, dynamic changes, competitive markets, and technical dependencies. Whether it’s a strategic issue or an alignment problem, category management is a challenging endeavor. Just as lean management optimizes […].

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How a Global CPG Leader Optimized $500M of Direct Materials Spend and Exceeded Savings Goal

A Fortune 500 CPG company partnered with GEP to improve end-to-end category management, optimize direct spend categories, and increase strategic focus on tail spend.

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Category Management Process in Procurement

ProcurePort

Category management is the process of pulling together similar products in a single category; and then addressing all the diverse initiatives of a single category as a whole. The initiatives captured in a particular category may include merchandising, procurement process, retail, and sales efforts.

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Three Mistakes Procurement Makes in Category Management

Supply Chain Brain

In the paper, "Three Mistakes Executives Make in Category Management", we explore what you should and should not be doing, provide key questions for Procurement to consider, and share a capabilities checklist for category management to deliver on its promise.