How Category Managers & Sourcing should coexist

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This Week's Deep Dive​

I love Category Managers.

Come to think of it, I also love Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

But what about when these three strategic pillars of Procurement form the structure of your team?

Instead of driving the Procurement Maturity model forward, everything slows down as the infighting within the Procurement team leads to a fractured vision.

In this week’s deep dive I break down how this should be set up

• Category Managers driving the strategy

• Strategic Sourcing delivering value throughout the supply chain

• SRM optimising the contract value and developing the partnership

And yes, I even give you a practical example of how it should work in practice (e.g. for IT equipment)

3-2-1 Procure Bites Resources

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• Shops rush for Christmas Stock as Shipping costs surge (Link)

1 - Productivity/ Life hacks

• 5 Surprisingly Productive things to do when you’re bored (Link)

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