Future Purchasing

APRIL 1, 2025

From our research, it is clear that many organisations still see category management as simply another term for strategic sourcing. However, we believe that category management and strategic sourcing focus on different aspects and have distinct goals. Strategic sourcing is focused on price reduction. specification management).

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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. Value is usually secured via three implementation routes – internal business change, supplier management and sourcing.

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Positive Purchasing

MAY 19, 2022

Of data sources? To future-proof their careers, procurement professionals must become conductors, orchestrating the diverse and changing needs of their business partners with supply market capabilities. appeared first on Positive - Procurement transformation, expert training for improved purchasing and procurement.

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