Is your organization out there recruiting for Category Managers? OR Are you out there looking for a position as a Category Manager? To start, it would be helpful for both sides of the hiring process to have a clear definition of what Category Management is…
Cost Savings, cost savings, cost savings – if we focus on cost savings at the expense (no pun intended 😊) of what is most important to our “customer” then we Fail. Period. Herein, lies the single biggest difference between Strategic Souring and Category Management –…
Category Management is being touted as the latest and greatest advancement for Procurement that will deliver huge impact to your organization. If you are not seriously moving toward Category Management TODAY, then you and your organization may be WAY behind. Before we all go running…
Before I get into this blog, I want to congratulate our St. Louis’ clients and friends on their Stanley Cup win! One of the single biggest challenges in Category Management is getting decisions made across organizational silos. You are NOT doing Category Management if you…
While I won’t share my top 5 today, I will share one of them that MUST be in everyone’s top 5 to move to Category Management or they may not know what they speak of and that is a High Performance Leadership Team (HPLT). The…