Category Management Archives

AOP Podcast Category Management Sourcing & Contracting Supplier Management

September 8, 2024

Calculating the Cost of Convenience in Facilities Management

“Everyone has an opinion about facility services in your buildings, so you're always trying to accommodate multiple stakeholders and juggle…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Podcast Category Management Differentiated Decision Making

August 18, 2024

Will Category Management Ever Become Mainstream?

“Will category management, under its current guise, ever get mainstream adoption? If it doesn't, is procurement destined to be a…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Podcast Category Management Leadership Supplier Management

July 28, 2024

A Fresh Take on the Future of Procurement with The Hershey Company’s Sherry Ulsh

“You always really need to look at people, process, and technology. If you don’t look at all three and understand…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Podcast Category Management

July 14, 2024

Category Management: How Far We’ve Come, How Far We Can Go

“I think category management is great fun because you have the freedom to do things. It’s not following a rote…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Podcast Category Management Digitization Risk Management

May 19, 2024

Optimizing Procurement’s Source-to-Pay Strategy

"In some weird sense, as we see the power of technology, the more apprehensive we get about how much information…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Podcast Category Management CSR

May 5, 2024

Removing the Internal Tension Between Cost and Sustainability

“Only when we stop accepting the fact that procurement is being made to make decisions that are not the best…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Blog Category Management Digitization Procurement Transformation

March 20, 2024

Analyzing the Global State of Services Procurement

Services spend is becoming an increasingly important strategic category for procurement to manage as more and more businesses rely on…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Podcast Category Management Procurement Transformation

March 10, 2024

Announcing the Launch of Art of Procurement SpendPros

“In procurement’s operating model of the future, internal teams are delivery leaders, relationships builders, and the ones who understand what…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Podcast Category Management Procurement Transformation

March 10, 2024

Art of Procurement Launches SpendPros, Expert-guided Category and Sourcing Enablement

“If our experts succeed, if the processes we build succeed, it will train the client's team in what best in…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Podcast Category Management Sourcing & Contracting Supplier Management

March 3, 2024

Transparency is the Antidote for Rising IT Costs

“There is always room for negotiation around IT spend. The worst they can do is say ‘no,’ but at least…

Philip Ideson

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Category Management

Calculating the Cost of Convenience in Facilities Management

Will Category Management Ever Become Mainstream?

A Fresh Take on the Future of Procurement with The Hershey Company’s Sherry Ulsh

Category Management: How Far We’ve Come, How Far We Can Go

Optimizing Procurement’s Source-to-Pay Strategy

Removing the Internal Tension Between Cost and Sustainability

Analyzing the Global State of Services Procurement

Announcing the Launch of Art of Procurement SpendPros

Art of Procurement Launches SpendPros, Expert-guided Category and Sourcing Enablement

Transparency is the Antidote for Rising IT Costs

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