Category management simplified – New book on how to implement category management in your business
Just this weekend I put my first book up for pre-order on Amazon.com, ready for release on July 1st. The pure essentials of implementing true category management condensed into 50 action packed pages for your reading pleasure. Go check out the book on www.amazon.com. I hope it is well worth the $4.99 and the 2 hours you need to read it… Enjoy!
The ambition when creating this book was to provide the essentials of implementing category management in procurement in a format that is possible for an extremely busy professional to digest during a weekend. This book is NOT meant to be the definitive guide to implementing category management, but to give an overview of the most important elements in doing this.
The goal of this book is to provide procurement professionals, procurement stakeholders, students and procurement project participants with a starting point and a common ground for implementing true category management in their business.
The book give value to all that have interactions with, or is participating in, the implementation process of category management in their business, or professionals that want to know what should be the focus when implementing or running a category management process in their organization or business
The book focuses on the 9 most important areas to focus on when implementing true category management. So many companies doesn´t get this right and implements a hybrid version of the strategic sourcing process, and this book give the areas to focus on and the pitfalls of failure for the startup category management organization.
The book defines category management in procurement and purchasing, and highlights the relation between category management and strategic sourcing, and provide an overview of the pros and cons with both processes. It also emphasizes the importance of the procurement and purchasing version of customer care; stakeholder management and stakeholder involvement. True category management cannot exist without a great stakeholder management and involvement approach.
The book also highlights the different skills and competencies that is needed to be a great category manager and procurement professional these days, and provides tips and tricks on how to define the positions and where to recruit to get the best person for the job.
In addition, the book highlights the other core steps in implementing true category management like
•How to create the best category tree / taxonomy
•How to do the spend analysis
•How to catch the wants and needs of the business
•Revamping the procurement organization to set it up for success
•Doing the in-depth market analysis
•How to establish a winning category strategy
•Defining the cross-functional teams needed to implement
•Training & development to get the correct competencies and resources in place
•Realizing the benefits from your work
Finally, the book emphasizes what to do to keep the benefits that have been created through the implementation process and how to keep engaging for the best results for your company.
The book highlights several examples and comes with online resources with sources, links and tools for the procurement professional that can be accessed by visiting the webpage of the book and the Procurement Simplified series at www.procurementsimplified.com .
The book is based on almost 20 years of experience from being a procurement consultant and line manager working with category management, procurement and supply chain management. The book Is also based on discussions with senior procurement professionals, consultants and CPOs over a period of several years prior to writing this book.
Posted on: May 30, 2017, by : iXcelioadmin