course | Strategic Sourcing and Category Management Excellence

Unit 1: Understanding Procurement and Strategic Sourcing in Category Management
 

• Procurement and purchasing management courses: definitions
• A vision for procurement
• The 21st-century procurement challenge
• Supply Chain Basics
• The Global Supply Chain and Its Influence
• Understanding category management in procurement: Definitions and evolution
• The foundations and structures of category management
• Procurement structure options
• Supply Chain Models and Types
• The Global Supply Chain
• Category Management definitions
• The Evolution of Category Management
• Category grouping overview
• The three aspects to be considered in the category groups
• Category Management structures
   

Unit 2: Maximizing Value Through Procurement and Category Management Excellence
 

• The Procurement Excellence roadmap
• The Purchasing Land Supplier loops
• Why we should use Category Management
• How Category Management Improves Value
• How category management builds from P2P and the procurement cycle
• The roadmap for procurement excellence
• Importance of Category Management in Procurement
• Value opportunities in strategic sourcing and category management
• The integration of varied approaches to maximize value

Unit 3: Supplier Sourcing and Selection Routes in Category Management
 

• Revisiting traditional purchasing
• The P2P and procurement cycle
• Value and risk analysis
• The Kraljic matrix in category management procurement
• Volume concentration and best price evaluation strategies
• Low-cost country sourcing methods

Unit 4: Collaborative Supplier and Category Management Training
 

• Objectives of Supplier Management
• Supplier and customer relationships in procurement category management
• Best practices in contract and supplier relationship management
• Benefits and improvements in supplier development
• Joint process development and value chain disruption

Unit 5: Recognizing and Overcoming Barriers to Category Management Solutions
 

• Common challenges and conflicts
• Perception issues in procurement category management
• Skillset enhancement and best practices for category management training courses
• Overcoming barriers like fear of change and trust issues

Unit 6: The 4-Step Model for Introducing Procurement Category Management
 

• Comprehensive research and analysis in category management
• Designing and planning new processes and structures
• Critical questions for operation and review
• Making category management a continuous strategy

Unit 7: Rethinking the Supply Chain and Category Management Certification
 

• Supply chain futures and predictions
• The effects of global factors like China's supply chain
• Professional development for purchasing manager training courses
• Steps to Achieve Supply Chain Excellence
• The 10 improvements for reengineering end-to-end supply chains
• Supply chain excellence and shareholder value
• Generating economic profit
• The 5 steps to supply chain excellence
• Developing the supply chain strategy
• Supply chain strategy best practice
• A vision for the future