Overview:

The Category Management course will help candidates to understand the processes which are essential to establishing and operating a successful category management approach.

From a simple clarification of the subject through to the practical issues of making it a reality, this category management course provides a wealth of information enabling candidates to identify the most appropriate category management structure, learn how to shape and scope categories as well as how to measure success.

Benefits:

Benefits of the Category Management course:

• The importance of category management as a procurement business tool
• An example of a typical Category Management process
• Understand the key elements and tools which are essential to making category management a success
• The implications of a category management approach on the existing process/organisation
• The techniques used to shape, scope and segment goods and services and allocate responsibilities to appropriate areas
• Recognise the drawbacks of Category Management
• Steps to identifying appropriate category management tactics
• Measuring the effectiveness of category management
• Recognising the role of governance through the process

Course details:

This Category Management course is intended for people who wish to understand and apply the processes, either so that they can initiate Category Management within their company or work within an established system and contribute more fully to it.

Participants with differing levels of experience, ranging from vary little to very experienced, are all likely to benefit.

Usual duration: Three days

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