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Category Management – advanced -Online

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Aimed at purchasing professionals, this course is built upon our proven 5i® Category Management process. It will enable and fully equip delegates to deliver significant business benefits around reduced price and cost reduced supply base risk and to unlock innovation and greater value for their most important categories of spend. This is our most popular training course and is Essential for anyone embarking on, or attempting to re-establish a Category Management program. This high impact activity-based online course will be led by leading procurement expert, Jonathan O’Brien who works with global blue-chip organizations to help transform their procurement capability

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Positive Purchasing

Positive Purchasing

CPD Provider No: 13670
Positive Purchasing is a global leader in procurement training, technology and transformation. Founded in the UK in 2003 and headquartered in Plymouth, we have spent over two decades helping organizations of all sizes get considerably more from their procurement and supply chains. We combine expert training with powerful SaaS platforms and proven methodologies to deliver real, measurable results — lower costs, reduced risk, stronger supplier relationships, and a procurement function that genuinely drives business performance. Our specialist areas include Category Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Negotiation (including our acclaimed Red Sheet® methodology), Sustainable Procurement, Effective Buying, and full end-to-end Procurement Transformation.
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