Are you looking for a method to purchase products as smartly and efficiently as possible? Do you want to further professionalize your purchasing? Develop new purchasing strategies per purchasing category? Or do you want to get more profit from your purchasing activities? Then setting up category management is something for your organization. Our category managers can help you with this!

Our approach

We help you analyze the market, the demand from the internal customer and the possibilities to save costs and create value. Together with you we develop a category classification and a step-by-step plan with which you can realize savings. Depending on your needs, Supply Value can help your organization by giving advice, supervising the execution, training your employees or carrying out the entire process.

When structuring category management, we take into account the size, objectives, available capacity and knowledge of your organization. During the execution we use various methods and techniques such as: Lean, Kraljic portfolio analysis, Spend analysis, change management, standardized interviews, confrontational workshops, simulations and demos. This ensures optimal results. Depending on the assignment and environment, the duration of the assignment varies from a few days to a few months. Afterwards, the entire process is evaluated and it is checked whether the expectations have been met.

Benefits of category management

Category management can be of great benefit to your organization, below a short overview of the most important advantages: