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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. In contrast, strategic sourcing is the process used by Procurement teams to source products and services for the business.

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Category Management: Essential or Outdated?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. Only procurement thinks of products and services as categories, and that is okay.