Future Purchasing

APRIL 1, 2025

From our research, it is clear that many organisations still see category management as simply another term for strategic sourcing. However, we believe that category management and strategic sourcing focus on different aspects and have distinct goals. It is often an output from a category strategy.

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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.

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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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