Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

a snack food company, came from how they intentionally targeted key strategic initiatives under Senior Vice President and Head of Procurement Ron Schnurs leadership. The leadership team was on board from the beginning but he still had to execute his recommendations in an orderly and intentional manner to deliver the results.

Influencing

ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Establishing this alignment early ensures that you’re tracking the performance of your procurement strategy against outcomes that leadership cares about. Segment Suppliers by Strategic Value and Risk Develop a tiered supplier management model that reflects the relative importance of each relationship.

Procurement strategies

ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Establishing this alignment early ensures that you’re tracking the performance of your procurement strategy against outcomes that leadership cares about. Segment Suppliers by Strategic Value and Risk Develop a tiered supplier management model that reflects the relative importance of each relationship.

Procurement strategies

Procurement Software

JANUARY 26, 2025

A lot of that will depend on how leadership reacts to the seismic shifts we are currently seeing in technology. Category Managers will be freed up to spend more time on execution rather than data gathering. Conclusion: Navigating Uncertain Waters The future of procurement hinges on organisational vision and leadership.

Supply Chain Efficiency

Future Purchasing

JULY 30, 2025

Our 2024 Global Category Management Report identified stakeholder engagement and alignment as the primary barrier to success in category management and procurement. Leadership buy-in: Leadership plays a critical role in setting the tone.

Stakeholder engagement

Procurement Software

MAY 25, 2025

If you pay your Category Managers six-figure salaries, but they spend one-third of their time on paperwork and routine tasks, this is like hiring a surgeon to fill out forms. A top Category Manager on a $150,000 salary will likely outperform three average ones at $100,000 each. This makes no business sense.

Procurement

Procurement Software

JULY 6, 2025

Even when leadership acknowledges that buyers deliver more than just bottom-line savings, this appreciation rarely shows up in our performance objectives. We’re still expected to hit those hard savings targets quarter after quarter, regardless of market conditions or category maturity. Let’s face it: this is frustrating.

Procurement

Spend Matters

JULY 1, 2025

Our coverage also explores the latest thought leadership topics about procurement and supply, the technology that serves it and comparative analyses based on demos and the scoring of 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories that create our Vendor Ranking data.

Procurement

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It is a process that creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. How Has Strategic Sourcing Evolved? However, whats really missing hereneeds analysis.

Strategic sourcing

ivalua

AUGUST 6, 2025

While direct procurement is usually centralized under procurement or supply chain leadership, indirect spend is typically distributed across business functions. For example, marketing might manage agency contracts while IT oversees SaaS subscriptions, and HR procures learning services.

Real-time Visibility

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It can open doors to career advancement and leadership roles. SCMDOJO Procurement Track The Procurement Track is a comprehensive program that equips individuals with the in-demand skills and expertise to excel in procurement and supply chain management.

Procurement

Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

I was a Category Manager in a large FMCG company. Now, I bet everyone reading this can come up with a list of typical tasks that Category Managers or Sourcing Managers do week in, week out, which you wouldnt or shouldnt pay someone $55.55 Effective Hourly Rate is a concept I came across back in 2017.

Procurement

Procurement Insights

MAY 15, 2025

by 2025, based on industry sources.This reflects strong, steady growth as Cirtuo establishes itself as a leader in digital category management and AI-powered procurement solutions.

Spend management

Procurement Insights

JUNE 3, 2025

Reality: No one invested time in proper training, and category managers are still relying on spreadsheets. Lesson: The tool isnt the issue underutilization and lack of change management are. After several months, savings targets arent met. Blame Game: The team complains the platform is too complex or not intuitive enough.

Real-time Visibility

Future Purchasing

JULY 2, 2025

He is also the co-author of six influential global reports on category management in collaboration with Henley Business School. At Future Purchasing, he contributes to thought leadership in procurement, focusing on areas like category management, stakeholder engagement, and sustainable procurement practices.

Procurement

Jaggaer

MARCH 19, 2025

In China, without meaningful election cycles, the political leadership can more easily take decisions for the medium and long term. So, whereas the EU is adding 80 Gigawatts in renewable energy capacity per year, China is currently adding around 370 Gigawatts capacity per year.

Contract management

Procurement Insights

MAY 15, 2025

Expertise Shifts : Emphasis on cross-training between Coupa’s spend management and Cirtuo’s category strategy platforms. Culture : Efforts to blend Coupa’s established corporate culture with Cirtuo’s innovative approach to category management.

Category management

Procurement Software

JULY 13, 2025

Category managers, supplier managers, contract managers, buyers – these roles will shrink dramatically. It shows leadership qualities that managers notice and reward. The mundane tasks that consume procurement professionals’ time are perfect for automation. The stakes are higher than you think.

Procurement team

SCMDOJO

APRIL 26, 2023

Category management is a procurement strategy that involves grouping similar products or services together into categories and managing them as a single unit. In this guide, we’ll explore the key principles of category management and how it can benefit your organization.

Category management

ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

Blog » Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium June 26, 2023 | | Thought Leadership by Eloise Barnum As businesses navigate through supply chain disruptions, high inflation, and sustainability initiatives, procurement, and supplier management has taken center stage in driving change.

Supply Chain Efficiency

Procurement Talk with David Byrne

JUNE 27, 2023

With huge, long-spanning roles at Diageo and Compass Group, Oliver … Continued The post Empathetic Leadership & How to Start Category Management from Scratch with Oliver C**k – Episode 78 appeared first on Talent Drive. You can’t do it all yourself, you’re only as good as the people around you.”

Category management

Future Purchasing

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Build category management coaching capability and unlock your team’s full potential. If ever there was a time for leadership teams to pull together, it is undoubtedly now. Well, there is, but for many, it’s been hiding in plain sight, building an internal business category management coaching capability.

Category management

The Good Spending

APRIL 10, 2022

The problem with the category management process One of the most significant problems of the category management process is the lack of adaptivity. Once issued and approved, a category strategy hardens over time and transforms from a managerial instrument into a constraint.

Category management

Procurement Heads

AUGUST 8, 2022

My core skills are across Category Management and procurement function leadership, involving functional transformation, strategy development and end-to-end process improvement in a global environment. In addition, I have expert knowledge of outsourcing the procurement service.

Category management

Procurement Heads

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We have three key areas: strategic sourcing, category management and vendor management, which is the onboarding and management of our suppliers and so on. The two key functional areas are strategic sourcing and category management. Then we also have vendor management.

Strategic sourcing

Procurement Leaders

JUNE 24, 2024

On this subject, he was a little cagier – while he had been clear with his leadership team on who he thought it should be and had been priming that person for the role for some time, the company had decided to turn to an executive search firm. So, to be truly successful, think now about your successor.

Leadership

Procurement Insights

JANUARY 12, 2023

I read several interesting articles recently on the JAGGAER blog regarding category management and technology and the analytical skills required by category managers to extract actionable knowledge. Edwards Demming. To what process am I referring? Data Modernization.

Category management

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. Your category strategy needs to keep pace.

Category management

ivalua

JUNE 29, 2021

These programs are as familiar to procurement professionals as concepts like spend analysis or category management. With all these discussions, research, and brainstorming, many things were a blur and much of the research and thought leadership has melded together in my mind. have accepted as a key element of procurement.

Business strategy

Future Purchasing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In our recently published FP Category Management Leadership Report 2021-22, 51% of respondents agreed an annual plan of category management projects with their relevant business stakeholders, compared to 39% in 2019-20. The importance of strategic alignment. There are a number of critical elements to consider.

Category management

Spend Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The tool’s typical end users are commodity buyers and procurement leadership in manufacturing companies. Its cost savings toolbox and procurement performance management module ensure the tool is fit for strategic purposes.

Category management

ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

is elevating the position to candidates by making them aware of the various aspects of Procurement beyond sourcing and category management. It’s critical to communicate how the function has evolved and the impact procurement professionals can have on a business’s success, particularly in a post-Covid world.

Supply chain resilience

Procurement Heads

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Category management has been added and embedded into the operating model. Also, on the development level, by operating across different work and cultural environments, often outside of core competencies and comfort zones, you can test, stretch and enhance your leadership skills.

Supply Chain Efficiency

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Mark also has significant private sector procurement leadership experience, including roles at, Vodafone and Anheuser-Busch InBev, where he led the Global eSourcing programme, achieving impressive results that included including executing over 30,000 eAuctions per year.

Leadership

SCMDOJO

APRIL 20, 2023

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in procurement, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to effectively communicate with vendors, internal stakeholders, and senior leadership. Dr. Muddassir has received a PhD in Management Science from Lancaster University Management School.

Management

Procurement Heads

OCTOBER 26, 2022

We are essentially set up across four key pillars: Category management and sourcing P2P Supplier management assurance and audit Sustainability. What are the roles and responsibilities the procurement function holds within your organisation? How do you split the function out?

Supply Chain Efficiency

Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Tier-1 reporting is imperative to supply chain tier-mapping & organizational modeling, which is a priority area receiving increased attention by leadership teams. Leadership acceptance, technology budget, and enhanced procurement resources are the first steps towards addressing this not-so-secret secret. Dirty Little Secret #2–4.

supply chain budgeting