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The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply

Advanced Category Management

Procurement Training- ADVANCED CATEGORY MANAGEMENT

This course will provide a requisite tool set for managing supplier organisations’ contribution to your organisational objectives.

Programme Outline

  • How to undertake a market assessment for a category
  • How to identify interdependencies between internal and external providers
  • How to leverage supplier management resourcing to improve internal operations
  • How to construct a category plan
  • How to measure category performance

Benefits to the Delegates

The attendees will be able to:

  • Apply the stages of Category Management in their day to day roles
  • Work systematically through a sequence of process steps to make better informed decisions regarding the categories of spend
  • Learn and implement a structured and consistent process when dealing with suppliers
  • Be exposed to best practice Category Management

Benefits to the Organisation

The sponsoring organisation will benefit by:

  • Identification of savings opportunities within category
  • Improved bottom line performance through proactive TCO management
  • Improved and embedded high quality category management process
  • Establishment of a common purpose and intent, aligning suppliers and the value they deliver to your organisations business requirements
  • A transparent approach to category management enabling all sourcing and supplier management decisions to be reviewed 

Who should attend

Those responsible for managing the external resources that contribute in a material way to the core operations of an organisation.

Dates, locations & fees

This course has now finished for 2010, please contact training@cipsa.com.au for more information or in-company training solutions.