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Category management is much more than strategic sourcing

Future Purchasing

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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What Exactly Is Procurement? And What is Purchasing?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Check out What Exactly Is Supply Chain Management? But the job titles that he had during his career alternatively included either the word Procurement or the word Purchasing. When I was young I thought I had a somewhat clearer understanding of what my Dad’s Purchasing job was. And what is Purchasing?