ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

No matter the focus, whether cost reduction and quality improvement, or supply chain optimization and resilience, procurement must have a concrete role in delivering outcomes that matter to the business. Intake management software that supports these controls can help standardize how requests are handled and who gets involved.

Procurement strategies 130

Procurement strategies Strategy Real-time Visibility Procurement 130

ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

No matter the focus, whether cost reduction and quality improvement, or supply chain optimization and resilience, procurement must have a concrete role in delivering outcomes that matter to the business. Intake management software that supports these controls can help standardize how requests are handled and who gets involved.

Procurement strategies 130

Procurement strategies Strategy Real-time Visibility Procurement 130

SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Moreover, this course offers a comprehensive overview of production and operations management concepts that covers: Process Improvement Quality Control Inventory Management. Head over to the course to be a pro at production and operations management. However, another fantastic thing about this course is that it is FREE.

Supply Chain Optimization 98

Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain KPIs Category management Supply Chain Efficiency 98

Procurement Software

MARCH 16, 2025

Better Data One of the biggest advantages of digitising your procurement operations is improved data quality. You know that you shouldnt be paying Category Managers and Strategic Sourcing Managers their salaries to spend a third of their day on non-value-added tasks , but we all know it happens!

Procurement 52

Procurement Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency Purchase orders 52

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Category management: Whereas spend management aims to depict the entire landscape, category management fills in the detail for each major spend category. Category management segments your expenditure into areas which contain similar or related products.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing e2e Supply Chain Efficiency Strategic sourcing 52

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The process creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. The word quality here covers a range of considerations contributing to value in every aspect of a companys operations.

Strategic sourcing 52

Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Supply Chain Efficiency Sourcing 52

Procurement Software

JUNE 15, 2025

Most experienced Procurement Managers don’t enjoy performing administrative tasks and firefighting operational issues. And yet, poor operational efficiency in Procurement means that the typical Category Manager often spends at least a third of their time performing busywork. Adults should be treated as adults.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement Category management supply chain software solutions 52

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 52

Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Sourcing supply chain software solutions 52

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In terms of measurement, the biggest challenge is likely to be the lack of data and/or the poor quality of data. First, provide specific guidance on the quality of information they must provide to assist with measurement. It is vital that your suppliers should understand your companys decarbonization ambitions.

Leadership 52

Leadership Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency Sustainability 52

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 52

Procurement Procurement team Category management Leadership 52

Future Purchasing

JANUARY 23, 2025

Analysing transactional data, contract pricing, and external developments to notify category managers of potential opportunities is close. Leverage Modern Technology: Harmonise and unify your spend and supplier data to Improve your data quality and create more insights. After all, insights are universally indispensable.

Data 52

Data Procurement Procurement team Negotiation 52

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Supplier Relationship Management What good is having the best suppliers if you can’t communicate well enough to leverage their products and skills? The quality, timeliness, and transparency of that collaboration can have a dramatic impact on manufacturing performance. Supplier collaboration is a business essential.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Suppliers Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Procurement Insights

MAY 1, 2025

Supplier Relationship Management: Archives provide a full view of supplier performance over time, supporting better selection, development, and negotiation. Category and Strategic Sourcing: Category managers and sourcing teams can leverage analytics from the archives to identify savings opportunities, manage risk, and drive innovation.

Procurement 40

Procurement Supplier relationship management Supply Chain Optimization Negotiation 40

ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

Common roadblocks include poor data quality and misclassification, data silos, and inflexible legacy or homegrown solutions. Category-level analysis supports smarter sourcing by giving category managers the insight they need to negotiate better terms, evaluate supplier performance, and align spending with strategic priorities.

supply chain budgeting 130

supply chain budgeting Risk Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

JAGGAER characterizes the steps in this process as Spend Management, Category Management, Sourcing , and Contracts. These four steps constitute the upstream source-to-contract part of the process. Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency Sourcing e2e Real-time Visibility 52

Future Purchasing

APRIL 28, 2025

We have been utilising an AI -driven approach that dramatically accelerates category strategies’ delivery with some of our most progressive clients. This allows category managers to develop a draft category strategy in hours of work, not weeks.

Strategy 52

Strategy Category management Stakeholder engagement Quality 52

Procurement Insights

JULY 4, 2025

MODEL 4 MODEL 5 Overall Assessment: The findings present a credible evolution in change management thinking, particularly valuable for complex and interconnected systems, such as procurement and supply chains. Outcome: Rich modeling of why resistance is triggered across the ecosystem.

Supply chain 52

Supply chain Procurement Buyers Supply 52

Procurement Insights

MAY 14, 2025

Coupas acquisition of Cirtuo follows a similar playbookenhancing AI capabilities to stay competitivebut the 3050% success rate of ProcureTech AI implementations (as discussed previously) suggests a high risk of failure if integration, data quality, or user adoption isnt prioritized. Coupa (Silicon Valley SaaS scale) vs.

Strategic sourcing 52

Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Innovation Risk 52

Procurement Insights

JUNE 16, 2025

” Insights gained by an AI agent in procurement about a supplier’s performance (via common strands) can instantly enhance the understanding of that supplier for AI agents in legal (contracts), finance (payments), or engineering (product quality). This creates a powerful, unified “enterprise intelligence.”

Supply Chain Optimization 52

Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency Ethics Raw materials 52

Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Types of Indirect Spend Categories Managing indirect spend can feel overwhelming, especially when it spans so many categories. We’re looking at an area where running a tight ship can make or break your ability to deliver quality products to your customers. The list goes on.

Spend management 40

Spend management Strategy Management Real-time Visibility 40

Spend Matters

JUNE 2, 2025

Monitor supplier lead times and service quality to minimize procurement-related delays. Compliance and risk management: Procurement plays a key role in aligning supplier contracts and sourcing decisions with compliance and regulatory standards. Collaboration between FP&A and category managers to refine budget and spend forecasting.

Sustainability 69

Sustainability supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility 69

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 52

Procurement team Procurement Purchase orders Contract 52

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 108

Category management Management Supplier relationship management supply chain software solutions 108

Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 26, 2019

However when I entered the Retail industry the group largely responsible for Procurement, amongst other things, was called Category Management. So what is the difference between Commodity Management and Category Management? Commodity Management. They would place, change, and manage purchase orders.

Category management 73

Category management Management Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing 73

Positive Purchasing

MARCH 4, 2025

By Jonathan OBrien with Stphane Morel In the ever-evolving landscape of procurement and supply chain management, category management remains a cornerstone. However, as technology advances and digital solutions become more integrated, the approach to category management is also transforming.

Category management 52

Category management Strategy Management Collaboration 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

First I’d like to establish some clarity around the title for this blog post in which we use the phrase “Commodity Management” Commodity Management is meant to encompass all of the strategic activities and responsibilities that go in to the process of buying raw materials. All Rights Reserved.

Category management 77

Category management Strategy Raw materials Management 77

Procurement Tactics

MARCH 16, 2023

Procurement Strategy This key element of strategic procurement is a long-term plan that ensures purchased goods and services from suppliers at the agreed terms, quality, and delivery time are cost-effective. Category Management Category management sorts your spending into areas with the same supplier markets.

Procurement 238

Procurement Procurement strategies supply chain budgeting Contract management 238

Future Purchasing

JANUARY 19, 2022

The application of category management is not something that arrives fully formed into our organisations but is a journey in the development of understanding and insights. We could do this ourselves by designing an evaluation approach or adopting available category management benchmarking.

Category management 52

Category management Management Strategy Quality 52

Future Purchasing

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Build category management coaching capability and unlock your team’s full potential. Well, there is, but for many, it’s been hiding in plain sight, building an internal business category management coaching capability. Often overlooked, however, is the potential for coaching to be used as a management tool from within.

Category management 52

Category management Management Leadership Stakeholder engagement 52

Sourcing and Supply Chain

JUNE 24, 2021

Category Management is the concept of the Retail industry that helps for better management as well as sales of a similar category of product by bundling the same. It results in specialization in category for a buyer and ends up in a better deal with saving time, resources, and money.

Category management 52

Category management Management Procurement Market analysis 52

Procurement Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

So, how we manage risk is what keeps me up at night… We try to be robust as a procurement organisation because, as a commodities company, risk is a part of our everyday life: we can have a crop failure, we can have a delivery failure, we can have a quality failure, so how do we handle that?” ” Stroup says.

Risk 246

Risk Management Risk management Category management 246

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 45

Category management Management Data Leadership 45

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 246

Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Vendor management Category management 246

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 52

Category management Collaboration Real-time Visibility Management 52

Procurement Tactics

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The following are some of the responsibilities strategic sourcing managers do in their work: Supervise the supply portfolio to ensure transparency of spending. Generate and integrate efficient sourcing and category management strategies. Determine the quantity, quality, and timing of the delivery. Risk management.

Strategic sourcing 200

Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Sourcing Management 200

Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Poor Data Quality, Scattered Tech Landscapes, Lacking Leadership Approval/Budgets. To paraphrase a question posed in a chat panel at DPW 2021 last week by Susan Walsh — The Classification Guru, ‘Can Digital Transformation take place in Procurement with poor data quality?’. Data quality is pivotal. Dirty Little Secret #2–4.

supply chain budgeting 98

supply chain budgeting Procurement e2e Supply Chain Efficiency 98

SCMDOJO

APRIL 20, 2023

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the procurement process from start to finish, ensuring that the organization acquires the necessary goods and services at the best possible price and quality.

Management 116

Management Procurement Contract management Category management 116