Browsing: Strategic Sourcing Vs. Category Management

“Cracking the Code on Collaboration – Six new tools”.  Here was the answer I had been searching for – THE code.  I imagined that I would find a set of swanky new digital tools or techniques that would blow my socks off.  Maybe even a little RPA or…

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A recent spate of news around this topic makes this an opportune time for this discussion.  Any Category Management (CM) strategy (and for this discussion we will talk about outsourcing offshore as the CM strategy) MUST have an exit ramp as an integral component.  The reason that offshoring…

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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 Leadership Team (LT)…

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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 – focusing on your…

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All Procurement /Supply Chain organizations can be positioned on a Maturity Model.  Some of you are still trying to move from tactical Purchasing to Sourcing while others may be trying to make the leap from Strategic Sourcing to Category Management.  Regardless of where you are, the journey to…

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