Future Purchasing

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This means that other crucial aspects of procurement, like category management, stakeholder engagement, and innovative problem-solving, are often neglected. Sam Ulyatt, Chief Commercial Officer, UK Home Office, strongly advocates for category management to help Commercial become a directorate of strategic leaders. “My

Innovation

Future Purchasing

JULY 30, 2025

He is also the co-author of six influential global reports on category management in collaboration with Henley Business School. So I was wondering, Rob, how long have you guys been doing category management for. And we’ve been really deploying strategic procurement and category management since then.

Category management

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. Stakeholder Engagement – Present your supplier portfolio to stakeholders (decision-makers and influencers) from the relevant business functions.

Strategic sourcing

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

Spend Matters

JUNE 2, 2025

Best practices for tracking and optimizing alignment efforts In the monitoring and follow-up phase, sustaining alignment between finance and procurement requires consistent KPI tracking, active stakeholder engagement and full data transparency. Collaboration between FP&A and category managers to refine budget and spend forecasting.

Sustainability

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

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

Barkers Procurement

JANUARY 8, 2023

Category management is a long-term, strategic approach to procurement in which certain employees or teams of employees are responsible for procuring specific types of items, such as IT equipment, office supplies or construction materials. This makes being open to change indispensable in category management. Find out more.

Category management

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

The Procuretech Podcast

AUGUST 6, 2024

This episode of The Procurement Software Podcast delves into the impact of technology and AI on category manager roles in procurement. Tune in to learn more about the evolving role of category managers in the era of technological advancements. Will Tech and AI make Category Management irrelevant?

Category management

Future Purchasing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Hence, Procurement need to promote the value and benefits of planning and agreeing which projects are going to be worked on over the next 12-month period with their respective business stakeholders. Context : Understand the landscape and dynamics of the industry sector that the business operates in and its impact on key categories.

Category management

Spend Matters

JULY 24, 2023

In terms of technology architecture, the report offers in-depth accounts of a number of use cases, including: Active/strategic stakeholder engagement beyond tactical intake management. Category management is the core engine for scaling processes.

supply chain budgeting

Barkers Procurement

JANUARY 4, 2023

Whilst Procurement had offered some historical support to ICT there had not been a dedicated IT Category Manager in place at ECFRS. This resulted in a category with no procurement pipeline and stakeholders often owning the Procurement process. Throughout the assignment, stakeholder engagement was key.

Procurement

Procurement Software

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Soon, the automation of much of this process will free up category managers to focus on decision-making and supplier relationships. Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is another area where automation is helping procurement professionals reclaim time. The key takeaway?

Procurement

Procurement Software

APRIL 9, 2024

They have a team of 10 procurement category managers. Each of those category managers earns $100,000 gross per year, which gives me a $1 million salary bill. How would I take this category management team of 10 each on $100K a year? The backbone of the team is still going to be Category Managers.

Category management

Procurement Software

JANUARY 24, 2023

For example, quality of data, issues with maverick spend, stakeholder engagement, trying to get more influence within the organisation, bringing more spend under management etc. It made me realise that I definitely don’t miss the day-to-day of being a Category Manager!

Procurement

Procurement Insights

JULY 9, 2025

MODEL 6 – The paper strongly argues that poor communication and lack of stakeholder engagement significantly decrease the likelihood of ProcureTech implementation success , making it the primary origin of failure regardless of the software chosen.

Category management

Procurement Insights

APRIL 8, 2025

Younger emphasizes stakeholder engagement beyond the procurement department, ensuring agents operate collaboratively across ecosystems. Ensures stakeholder engagement beyond procurement departments for broader collaboration. Builds unified ecosystems that align with agent-based principles for procurement value.

Supply Chain Efficiency