Category Management – Executive Team Essentials

This half-day specialist high-level Category Management course is aimed at senior management and executive teams in companies implementing Category Management or contemplating implementing the approach.

Delivered by a partner-level specialist as an interactive workshop, it combines an exploration of the principles of Category Management (including a taster of some key tools) with working sessions to relate the process to the organization. Galvanise the support necessary to streamline category strategy creation across the business.

Category management course - classroom and online training - Executive Team Essentials

Course Content

  • Procurement as a contributor of real value and building competitive advantage
  • What best practice procurement looks like - what mature organizations are doing
  • Introduction to Category Management (foundations, pillars and phases)
  • The breakthrough benefit possible
  • Exploring the Category Management toolkit
  • How suppliers gain advantage including a taster session exploring one analytical tool
  • Making Category Management a success in the organization including governance required
  • The role of senior teams to support Category Management
  • Driving supply-side sustainability using Category Management

Learning objectives

By the end of this session delegates will be able to:

  • Describe what Category Management is and how it adds value to an organization
  • Describe why Category Management is an essential business process
  • Describe the key principles and stages of Category Management
  • Put in place the appropriate governance approach to enable Category Management
  • Play a key role to enable and support the process and realization of benefits
  • Establishing a Sustainable Procurement program using Category Management

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