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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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Category Management: Essential or Outdated?

Positive Purchasing

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. And yet, some procurement organizations are reviewing their category management delivery strategy.