Category management course: content, tools and activities
Why consider this training? This course is designed to review the component disciplines of creating a category plan and help category managers and category specialists develop the thought processes and skills that are needed to take their category strategy to the next level and drive value creating sourcing and supplier management initiatives. If you are a category manager or sub-category manager responsible for a significant level of spend and looking to refresh a category, this is the course for you.
Summary: “Tell me what I need to know in 60 seconds” Key facts: - size of spend/ coverage - # of suppliers Current objectives and initiatives. Value development themes checklist: -Rationalisation -Growth -Standardisation -Cost Management /VAVE -Innovation
Category Background: “What is the focus, size and shape?” Business alignment and impact summary – what does this category deliver (mission statement). Category scope/ breakdown – what’s in this category and spend in each sub category & trend. Sourcing project history. Supplier portfolio listing with spend/ value/ risk/complexity tiering. Category risk analysis
Category Oversight: “How do we manage the value in this category?”
Market Forces: “What’s happening out there and how does it affect us?” Market difficulty assessment: -Overall - Suppliers’ supply market - Supplier market - Demand market Four box so-what/ SWOT analysis
Opportunity Pipeline : “What could we do to develop value?”
Development Plan: “What are we working on and what results will be delivered?” Category spend outlook (FY +3) - summary -by supplier List of active initiatives that: a) Develop the category b) Deliver strategic sourcing initiatives c) Strengthen strategic/critical supplier relationships
Sourcing project schedule
Category options (written as requirements).
Supplier portfolio governance: - Contract management/ frameworks - Performance and continuous improvement. - Risk Management Key stakeholders: Activity based category RASCI and communications plan
-Risk/resilience -Sustainability -Customer experience
Category summary template Mission statement template Category breakdown template Cumulative spend graph Supplier
Category governance schedule RASCI
PESTLE Five forces Competitor analysis (optional) So What matrix
Weighted decision matrix Selection Criteria Value/Benefit statement
Action plan template
positioning/preferencing Category risk heat map Category risk register Category SWOT
Category research Spend analysis Requirements gathering and validation Supplier portfolio analysis Risk identification and analysis
Translate business requirements into sourcing activities. Oversight of sourcing initiatives.
Conducting primary research. Reusing secondary research. Market analysis
Opportunity identification (challenging the statis quo) Opportunity evaluation (criterion referenced) and prioritisation.
Programme management and oversight.
Supplier segmentation, treatment strategy and governance.
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