Strategic Sourcing and Category Management

Follows on from Supply Chain Management, for buyers, category managers and procurement leads moving from order-by-order buying to strategy. Learn to analyse spend, understand needs and demand, read a supply market, build should-cost, index-linked and total cost of ownership models, choose a sourcing strategy and present its business case. Then plan the negotiation, count savings honestly, and implement, govern and review the category plan, with worked examples throughout.