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 way. But, we…
We are in the midst of responding to a RFP to help the prospect build a Strategic Procurement Competency Model. Actually, this is a client of over 6 years and not a prospect. And they define strategic procurement with three components – Category Management, Strategic Sourcing and Supplier…
“How many of your organizations are doing Strategic Sourcing?” I am sure almost all hands went up and if I ask the same question regarding Category Management there would still be numerous raised hands up. I wish I had even a nickel for every time an organization told…
If you’ve attended any conference around the world where we have presented, the most surprising answer we give is to the question: who would be the 1st hire if we were starting a Category Management/Supply Chain organization? And the answer is: a salesperson!!! And the reason is that…
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 want to do…
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