Category Management A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition

Are category management and strategic sourcing with competitive sourcing mandated?

Can purchasing category management accommodate close supplier relationships?

Do you know the difference between strategic sourcing & category management?

How can strategic sourcing and category management help to deliver value?

How has category management enabled practitioners to differentiate their offer from competitors?

How to ensure value levers are also aligned with category profile and external conditions?

Is services procurement category management worth more than the sum of its parts?

What are the benefits of the successful implementation of category management?

What is the difference between strategic sourcing and category management?

Which activities are included in your product category management practices?


This Category Management Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Category Management challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems.


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.



Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'



This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Category Management investments work better.



This Category Management All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.



INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth Category Management Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of Category Management maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Category Management improvements can be made.



In using the questions you will be better able to:



Diagnose Category Management projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices.



Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals.



Integrate recent advances in Category Management and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines.



Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the Category Management Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which Category Management areas need attention.



Your purchase includes access to the Category Management self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.