Happy Labor Day!
Since this is the start of Labor Day weekend (in the US), we thought we would delay our really serious blog post that we had planned. We hope you have a safe holiday weekend with friends and loved ones.
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Category management: Are You a Player-Coach?
We were invited to a Supplier summit (report next time) hosted by a F25 client and heard some remarks from the head of their operations (just for understanding scale his group handles 52 million interactions with members/customers a month!!!!!!). He made an interesting comment that…
Strategic Sourcing vs. Category Management – Let’s Talk Process….
Let’s talk process!!! I assume this is the area where we may have the MOST disagreement. I often hear from clients that Strategic Sourcing and Category Management are interchangeable terms for the same process and I must admit that many, many organizations use them that…
Category Management: Are We Done with This COVID Thing?
Simple one-word answer: Hardly. All you have to do is take a look at China and the impacts of COVID that they are still reeling from and will continue to do so for years to come. That’s no longer conjecture but reality. Therefore, we need…
Do You Know the Difference Between Strategic Sourcing & Category Management? How Did You End up in Procurement / Sourcing/ Category Management?
At The Mpower Group, we do a lot of training for Procurement / Sourcing / Category Management / Supply Chain groups. One of the opening exercises we like to do is to ask the participants three questions: When you were a child, what did you…