Sourcing Supply market Supply market capability 
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).
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.
Positive Purchasing
MAY 19, 2022
There is a tremendous opportunity to digitize and automate most, if not all, data collection: external supply market insights, internal data, perspectives from stakeholders, and other intelligence. Of data sources? Automating category management. All that insight is great, but what are you going to do with it?
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