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Category Management

Managing related purchases as a portfolio with a dedicated strategy.

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Procurement
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40 terms of 257

Category management groups similar spend — packaging, freight, IT, professional services — and assigns each group an owner and a strategy based on market structure, spend size and supply risk.

It replaces reactive, order-by-order buying with a plan per category: which to consolidate, which to keep competitive, which to partner on, and which are simply not worth the effort.

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Strategic Sourcing

Related terms

Spend Analysis

Classifying and examining purchase data to find savings and risk.

Strategic Sourcing

A data-driven approach to selecting suppliers for long-term value.

Approved Vendor List

AVL

The controlled set of suppliers cleared to receive orders.

Tail Spend

The many small purchases that make up a small share of value but most transactions.

More in Procurement

Approval Workflow Bid Evaluation Blanket Purchase Order Conflict of Interest (CoI) Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Cost Avoidance Delegation of Authority (DoA) Dual Sourcing

Category Management is not just a definition here

Procurement runs on this vocabulary every day in AWRA OpsHub — 40 of our 257 glossary terms describe things the platform actually does.

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