Category Management

Category Management is a powerful approach to strategic procurement. It focuses on working with your organization’s key areas of spend to secure added value. When implemented effectively, this approach can build significant competitive advantage, deliver dramatic cost reduction and the value and innovation required for business success.

Positive Purchasing combines online and classroom training courses and a unique digital platform, with advanced learning tools to deliver a world-class Category Management program. Using our industry leading 5i® methodology, our experienced procurement practitioners provide the knowledge, practical skills and business processes needed to transform the way your organization buys goods and services.

Procleus - Enabling Category Management

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Our unique Procleus digital platform enables global procurement teams to deliver remarkable benefits and unlock significant potential from the supply base. Featuring an extensive library of digital learning modules, individual competency assessment and managed learning programs alongside the complete suite of processes, tools, templates and resources for procurement and negotiation, Procleus is the essential tool for today’s procurement teams.

What our customers say about us

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Quality of materials provided

Course Overall

“Invaluable training that would be beneficial for anyone working in the Procurement field! Our team gained valuable insight into the opportunities that category management holds. It was a great course that makes you stop, think, and question”.

Category Management course delegate – Healthcare organization

“Excellent course to learn and formulize Category Management! We were given a full overview of the current procurement tactics and techniques required for setting up a category. The half day workshops were the perfect duration to keep me engaged”.

Category Management course delegate – Pharmaceutical company

“This course enables good engagement between team members and opens up new ways of thinking. We covered an extraordinary amount of material supported by online content that provides an in-depth explanation of category management”.

Category Management course delegate – Global food manufacturing company

Training Courses

High-impact courses for individuals and procurement teams, delivered either online as a series of instructor-led workshops, as classroom events or as blended learning solutions. Positive Purchasing’s trainers are renowned experts in their field, with personal experience gained from practising procurement for large organizations across the globe.

Public Course - Online | Category Management

Category Management – Advanced – Online Public Course – October & November 2023

CPD Certified
IFPSM Accredited

This online advanced course, scheduled for 3-4, 17-18 and 31 October and 1 November 2023, covers all aspects of our proven 5i® Category Management process. View Course

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Category Management – Introduction

This introductory-level course is aimed at stakeholders or individuals who are coming into contact with Category Management programs. View Course

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Category Management – Intensive

This intensive Category Management course is structured around our 5i® Category Management process. View Course

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Category Management – Advanced

CPD Certified

Our most popular course, Category Management Advanced, covers all aspects of our 5i® Category Management process. View Course

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Category Management – ‘Getting Behind Price and Cost’

This introductory-level course is aimed at stakeholders or individuals who are coming into contact with Category Management programs. View Course

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Category Management – Executive Team Essentials

This specialist, half-day course is designed for senior management and executive teams in companies using – or considering implementing – a Category Management process. View Course

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Category Determination, Segmentation, Opportunity Analysis & Governance

A series of facilitated workshops for your organization to identify & prioritize the categories to pursue for optimum value & advantage. View Course

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Finance for Procurement Professionals – Introduction

CPD Certified

An introductory accounting & finance course aimed at those who want to understand how to use financial data and indicators to assess a supplier's position. View Course

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Finance for Procurement Professionals – Intensive

An intensive accounting & finance course aimed at those who want to understand how to use financial data and indicators to assess a supplier's position. View Course

Toolkits and Resources

Introduction to 5i® Category Management

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Our Category Management program is built on our unique 5i methodology.

This stage-based approach – incorporating Initiation, Insight, Innovation, Implementation and Improvement – uses best-practice theory and has been proven to deliver results in organizations around the globe.

The 5i® Approach

Our best practice business improvement methodology enables cross-functional teams to develop and implement high-impact sourcing strategies for key areas of organizational spend (purchasing categories).

Packages

Our Category Management package is a complete solution of training and resources for your purchasing team.

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Course Catalogue

To download our Training Course Catalogue, please click the link below.

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Get in Touch

If you’d like to discuss how our training, platform and package options could work for your organization, please click below or call us on +44 33 00 94 0000.

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