Explore category management strategy frameworks and the 4 P’s of CM (Purpose, Position, Portfolio & Plan), with some typical examples. Introduction: Why Category Management Needs Strategy You’ve probably already noticed:...
Learn how category management helps mitigate supply risk, manage volatility, and build resilient sourcing strategies across procurement categories. Introduction: Why Risk & Resilience Now Sit at the Category Level Today, procurement risk is...
Understand the difference between strategic procurement/sourcing and category management, where they overlap, and how they work together in practice. Introduction: Why These Terms Are Often Confused Many people – including experienced procurement...
Introduction: One Discipline, Governed by Public Mandate Category management is widely recognised as a structured, transferable procurement discipline. Its core principles understanding spend, analysing supply markets, aligning to organisational objectives, and...
Introduction: Why Category Management Needs a Structured Process While there is no agreed “canonical” definition of category management, the following serves as one with which most experts in the field would broadly agree: Category management is a structured...
