Case Studies - Category Management

Future Purchasing has an excellent pedigree when it comes to designing and implementing category management process and discipline into organisations. We are a centre of excellence for category management expertise. As such we have a track record of working with clients who are either looking to introduce category management for the first time or indeed looking to refresh or reinvigorate a process that has gone stale.

Available Documents

The following documents are available for this section

	Building category management capability through process design, training & coaching How FP helped a CPO to create a new direction for Procurement involving the adoption of category management as a business discipline that delivered 11% savings through proactive coaching.
	Wave 1 SRM roll-out through team workshops & category manager mentoring How FP worked with a Pharmaceutucal company to create SRM strategies that delivered 400+ value opportunities.
	Refresh and redesign of stakeholder engagement, category management & SRM processes How FP created a new "e" enabled category management process & toolkit that delivered 7% increase in productivity in the Retail sector.
	Implementing SRM in the public sector How FP jointly designed & implemented a new SRM process in the Public Sector that identified £19m of additional vaule over a 16 week period.
	Implementing SRM through process development & global education programme How FP refreshed an existing SRM process and educated 185 Procurement staff in how to apply stakeholder engagement & SRM techniques for a Banking organisation.
	Building the client's internal category management capability through train-the-trainer workshops How FP blended its own category management IP with a Retail company's own process materials and then run a series of "train the trainer" workshops to transfer its skills & knowledge.
	Implementing category management How FP supported a Pharmaceutical company to roll out a new category management approach through training, coaching and facilitation of pilot category projects that delivered 40% savings.
	Building category management capability through coaching How FP helped a Pharmaceutical company to build category management capability through coaching