This past Tuesday, we met with a group of CPOs as part of PERT (Procurement / Supply Executive Round Table) and the topic was “How to Maximize Value through Relationships (Internal and External) and Governance”. The discussion focused on the journey from Strategic Sourcing to Category Management and…
If you have missed our monthly series of webinars on Category Management, I would highly recommend that you join us next Tuesday, June 27th. We are getting great feedback and the number of registrants continues to climb every month – mostly through people telling their colleagues about it. …
One of the best kept secrets in Category Management is the tremendous opportunity to add value in Professional Services spend. I’m not referring to developing rate cards, reducing the number of suppliers, managing demand or establishing strategic alliances but rather looking at all the hidden opportunities in “managing”…
For the last three weeks, we’ve been having a conversation around the difference between Strategic Sourcing and Category Management? This is a topic that got LOTS of attention and quite a bit of engagement from the readers of this blog 🙂 ! Stay tuned as we walk through…
Last week Anne Kohler wrote about the recent PERT (Procurement Executive Round Table) meeting and the discussion around Category Management (“CM”) and I would like to continue that. As you saw, we published a Maturity Model in 2001 (since updated a few times) and many of you who…
