ProcurePort

JUNE 17, 2021

The post Benefits of Category Management in Supply Chain appeared first on ProcurePort Blog. While we’ve certainly made recent strides and are getting closer to the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s a lot we can learn looking back over the past year, especially in […].

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ProcurePort

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Harris, former university professor at the University of Southern California (USC) first coined the term “category management” it was in relation to retail. With so many interpretations what is the official category […].

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ProcurePort

APRIL 13, 2021

Two of the most common supplier-management strategies in the history of procurement are category management and strategic sourcing. The post Category Management vs Strategic Sourcing – Breaking Down the Differences appeared first on ProcurePort Blog. Both are valid options of developing […].

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ProcurePort

JULY 1, 2021

The post How to Improve Strategic Sourcing with Category Management appeared first on ProcurePort Blog. Constructing a strategy out of complimentary tactics, then, is a good way to optimize value […].

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Procurement Leaders

JUNE 20, 2023

Every year, Procurement Leaders’ research team explores category planning for the next 12 months. There is a vigorous debate in the world of procurement about the speed at which we transform categories. Some pioneering CPOs launch ‘big bangs’ in which categories are rolled out across the business in one rapid blast.

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ProcurePort

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The post How an Effective Category Strategy Can Improve Procurement appeared first on ProcurePort Blog. The human brain, on average, is only able to remember between 6 and 9 digits in a sequence when only seeing or hearing that sequence once.

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Art of Procurement

JANUARY 12, 2023

In this week’s episode of the Art of Procurement podcast, Philip Ideson welcomed the first guest of 2023: Stephane Morel, The post Applying Category Management to the Challenges of a New Age appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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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. Business requirements.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As the world continues to change at a rapid pace, category managers will need to be more nimble and adaptable than ever before. As a result, category managers must be prepared for continued evolution in shopping habits and be ready to adjust their strategies accordingly. Category managers are under constant pressure to deliver results.

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The Thomas Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Our platform has over 75,000 categories of products and services, from alloy to zinc, from which professionals like you can source. And thanks to our industry specialists, we are constantly researching and adding to our platform with new supplier categories to help you keep up with current market trends. month over month.

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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. When developing your category management strategy , you must have a comprehensive team of stakeholders.

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The Thomas Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Our platform has over 75,000 categories of products and services, from alloy to zinc, for professionals like you to source from. And thanks to our industry specialists, we are constantly researching and adding to our platform with new supplier categories to help you keep up with current market trends. Hydrogel Adhesives.

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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.

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The Thomas Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Our platform has over 75,000 categories of products and services, from alloy to zinc, from which professionals like you can source. And thanks to our industry specialists, we are constantly researching and adding to our platform with new supplier categories to help you keep up with current market trends.

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The Thomas Blog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Our platform has over 75,000 categories of products and services, from alloy to zinc, from which professionals like you can source. And thanks to our industry specialists, we are constantly researching and adding to our platform with new supplier categories to help you keep up with current market trends. Water Soluble Film.

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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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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. If we fix the data issue, we will solve many problems.

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The Thomas Blog

JULY 15, 2022

Our platform has over 75,000 categories of products and services, from alloy to zinc, for professionals like you to source from. And thanks to our industry specialists, we are constantly researching and adding to our platform with new supplier categories to help you keep up with current market trends. Pressure Sensitive Fabrics.

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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. Coaching in the context of category management. Businesses are under pressure like never before.

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The Thomas Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Our platform has over 75,000 categories of products and services, from alloy to zinc, for professionals like you to source from. And thanks to our industry specialists, we are constantly researching and adding to our platform with new supplier categories to help you keep up with current market trends. High-Resolution 3D Printer s.

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Future Purchasing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Developing a pipeline of category projects should be a collaborative and creative process. Too often Procurement works in isolation when deciding what category projects to work on. It has similarities with category diagnostics and opportunity analyses which are undertaken to identify the scale of savings available.

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The Thomas Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Our platform has over 75,000 categories of products and services, from alloy to zinc, for professionals like you to source from. And thanks to our industry specialists, we are constantly researching and adding to our platform with new supplier categories to help you keep up with current market trends. Nearshoring Services.

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Jaggaer

JULY 27, 2021

The post The Golden Rules of Category Management Strategy appeared first on JAGGAER.

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Future Purchasing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A common challenge area for category teams is understanding the breadth of content that a category management strategy should contain. However, an excellent category management strategy will address many aspects of the business which surround the most effective acquisition and use of a set of products or services.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 26, 2022

Therefore, free game categories, or genres, can be subdivided into sub-genres, and one game may well belong to more than one genre. Fastdownload counts several categories that we will introduce in this article. The post All Available Free Game Categories You Want to Download! The Impact of Technology on the Gaming Industry!

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Art of Procurement

AUGUST 2, 2022

It’s easy to think that in this world of access to information, being able to forecast, anticipate and, most importantly, The post Questions that Lead to Answers, the Category Insight Challenge appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 27, 2021

The post From Analytics to Action: The Technology Side of Category Management appeared first on JAGGAER.

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The Thomas Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Our platform has over 75,000 categories of products and services, from alloy to zinc, from which professionals like you can source. And thanks to our industry specialists, we are constantly researching and adding to our platform with new supplier categories to help you keep up with current market trends.

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ProcurePort

MAY 27, 2020

Determining how much total money spent in the last year, identifying vendors and managing their relationships, and listing out the various categories of products and services purchased are daunting tasks to any procurement team. The post Your 5-Step Procurement Spend Analysis Template appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Jaggaer

MAY 3, 2023

The post Q&A: Drive greater category value by uniting external and internal intelligence appeared first on JAGGAER.

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The Thomas Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our platform has over 75,000 categories of products and services, from alloy to zinc, from which professionals like you can source. And thanks to our industry specialists, we are constantly researching and adding to our platform with new supplier categories to help you keep up with current market trends.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

IBM named a Leader In the report, Forrester Research evaluated 15 digital process automation (DPA) providers against 26 criteria in three categories: Current offering, Strategy and Market presence. In addition, IBM received the highest possible score in vision, innovation and partner ecosystem in the Strategy category.

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ProcurePort

APRIL 13, 2022

• An organization’s procurement efforts can be split into two main categories; there are items that go directly into the final product of the company and those that do not. • The post Indirect Procurement Process Flow appeared first on ProcurePort Blog. These items include office supplies, […].

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ProcurePort

JUNE 13, 2022

ProcurePort was named a Solution Leader in the e-Sourcing and Supplier Management Category in Spend Matters’ Spring 2022 SolutionMap, where it competed with 67 other procurement technology providers. Based on solution-specific scalability, client […].

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Procurement Heads

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Our clients are predominantly looking for Category Management specialists with excellent category strategy experts who can deliver robust supply chains for ongoing, uninterrupted production. Are you looking to hire a Category Manager? Here at Procurement Heads , we have seen an increase in vacancies across the Industrial sector.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 1, 2021

The post Overcoming Barriers to Category Management Innovation in Your Supply Base appeared first on JAGGAER.

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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.

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