World of Procurement blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Contract Management : Navigating, drafting, and managing contracts with vendors. Project Management : Leading procurement projects from inception to completion. Category Management : Managing product or service categories as strategic business units.

Procurement 52

Procurement Ethics Supplier relationship management Market knowledge 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The top 5 technical skills were, in order: Inventory Management, Project Management, Best Practice Knowledge, Computer Skills, and Risk Management. Source ,” which includes Buyers, Category Managers, Commodity Managers, Procurement Specialists, Purchasing Managers and Sourcing Managers.

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Supply chain Supply Leadership Supply chain management 98

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Target Audience A great fit for a procurement audience, including procurement specialists, aspiring and current procurement professionals, operations managers, project managers, and those seeking career advancement. Even at the Diploma level, MCIPS delves into the why behind procurement principles, not just the how.

Procurement 54

Procurement Real-time Visibility supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Optimization 54

Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 6, 2019

Commodity Management. Category Management. In my experience the Category Managers in Retail are closest to this mentality. They have their sales and growth objectives for the categories that they are managing. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Hey Procurement!

Management 48

Management Procurement Category management Chief Procurement Officer 48

Procurement Leaders

MAY 30, 2022

Part of the wider commercial real estate giant CBRE, Global Workplace Solutions provides clients with a range of property services including transaction and advisory services, facilities management, project management and energy management.

Suppliers 130

Suppliers Influencing Procurement team Procurement 130

Procurement Heads

APRIL 26, 2023

It requires so many different skills: commercial, financial, stakeholder management, project management, influencing … the list goes on. I don’t necessarily focus on experience within a specific category (unless it is absolutely critical for the role), as I believe procurement skills can be applied in any category.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 130

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Efficiency Sustainability Risk management 130

Procurement Heads

APRIL 26, 2023

It requires so many different skills: commercial, financial, stakeholder management, project management, influencing … the list goes on. I don’t necessarily focus on experience within a specific category (unless it is absolutely critical for the role), as I believe procurement skills can be applied in any category.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 130

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Efficiency Sustainability Risk management 130

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Those same companies, out of necessity, became more sophisticated and implemented Strategic Sourcing and Category Management, delivering substantial savings to their companies bottom line and even help capture innovation. Check out Commodity (or Category) Management – What is your Buying Strategy?

Procurement 51

Procurement supply chain budgeting Contract Competitive bidding 51

Barkers Procurement

MAY 25, 2022

Category management. Barkers started category councils and reviewed tendering and negotiations practices, delivering £750k savings in the first year. Jersey Electricity needed help to launch a full review of the procurement function, starting from scoping, discovery, planning and implementation for: Spend analysis.

Contract management 52

Contract management Supplier relationship management Negotiation Contract 52

SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Expertise: Strategic sourcing and contract creation, procurement, supply chain management, interim supply chain project management, cost reduction, contract management, and commodity management are areas of expertise. She provides consultancy in various projects of procurement and purchasing.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 59

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency 59

Una

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Customer Relationship Management (Salesforce, Hubspot, Zoho, etc.). Project Management (Asana, monday.com, Trello, etc.). For the three applications listed in each category above, there are another dozen more, each with its own pros, cons, and price points. Sales and Marketing (Hubspot, Zoho, Nutshell, etc.).

Budget 98

Budget Purchasing Collaboration Vendor management 98

The Procuretech Podcast

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Improving our Productivity for Day-to-Day Communuication and Project Management: Richard Sains from Acada 1:43 Rich explains what ultimately drove him to make the switch from being a category manager to a SaaS entrepreneur.

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Category management Project management Procurement team Procurement 40

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Recently, I read Magnus Carlsson’s book, Strategic Sourcing and Category Management: Lessons learned at IKEA. the bible for strategic sourcing and category management, Carlsson dedicates the entirety of last two chapters to speak about change management, and change as a function for reaching goals and building organizational value.

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Change management Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Supply chain 56

SCMDOJO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

That is, adding to what we had previously discussed, finding specialized courses within supply chain management, such as those focused on Category Management or Project Management, may be challenging. However, when it comes to Coursera’s supply chain courses, the platform can be somewhat unclear.

Supply Chain Efficiency 98

Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization Supply chain Supply chain management 98

The Procuretech Podcast

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Anne-Sophie Le Bloas, Founder and CEO of Ravacan, experienced in both her native Europe and also in the US, that there wasn't much innovation out there when it came to leveraging digital tools to manage direct materials spend, and set out to remedy this. Managing multiple tiers of supply and directed buys.

supply chain software solutions 40

supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain Innovation 40

Procurement Software

APRIL 23, 2024

The platform is tailored for finance, procurement, and technology leaders, offering features like real-time data analysis, category management, and budget forecasting to drive strategic decisions across various industries. Key Data: Founder / CEO: Alex Grundy Date Founded: 2019 Visit Spendkey profile in our Software Finder 5.

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supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain budgeting 52

Procurement Heads

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

From then, seeking a new challenge, I moved to LV= to IT procurement a couple of years later and didn’t look back until earlier this year when I was presented with a great opportunity to head up the non-Claims Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) team here at Allianz Holdings, after first TUPE’ing across at the start of 2020.

e2e 246

e2e supply chain budgeting Agile and Lean Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer 246

Procurement Heads

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

From then, seeking a new challenge, I moved to LV= to IT procurement a couple of years later and didn’t look back until earlier this year when I was presented with a great opportunity to head up the non-Claims Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) team here at Allianz Holdings, after first TUPE’ing across at the start of 2020.

e2e 130

e2e supply chain budgeting Agile and Lean Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer 130

Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

I’m not suggesting you run out and invest in an all new and expensive Source to Pay (S2P) system, no, but you do need to have a road map for those systems to be implemented that aligns to the maturing and evolving team, starting with the most critical; Initiative Management and PO systems.

Procurement 70

Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting Negotiation 70

Procurement Software

MAY 23, 2023

There should be less focus on category management and more focus on the top level relationships with the company’s largest and most important suppliers. The book gives the example of Bosch in the automotive industry, with them spanning multiple categories. Taking a category management approach leaves cash on the table.

Procurement 52

Procurement supply chain budgeting Agile and Lean Supply Chain Suppliers 52