Category Management Strategy
Collaborate with your category stakeholders, identify unique strategies and shape your procurement success
Why you need a Category Management Strategy
In a highly globalized and volatile world, with increasing customer demand, shorter product life cycles, growing competition and continuous need for innovation, procurement managers can be faced with various complex issues. Through Category Management, companies can collaboratively strengthen their procurement strategy and orchestrate their value chain across regional and market boundaries. Our procurement experts work together with our first-class category management software partner to champion your procurement organization. With procurement processes affecting both the top and bottom line of your company, we have developed a Category Management program geared to enhance transparent category strategy development and align procurement strategies with corporate business objectives. We promote direct communication and close collaboration between your category stakeholders and procurement team in order to transform knowledge and shape a procurement organization that creates real enterprise-wide value.
Our category management program helps your company gain a detailed overview of your procurement operations by segmenting the main areas of organizational spend for both your direct and indirect products and services. The program follows a sequential-step methodology from strategy to delivery to gain insights and turn those insights into action. We help your category stakeholders gain a deeper understanding of their category risks, spend, suppliers, products and markets to identify category-specific and value-adding opportunities. Our Category Management program shapes your success by analyzing your procurement categories, identifying unique category strategies, translating strategies into tangible initiatives and reporting and monitoring results.
