We offer a range of Category Management courses aimed at different audiences and  ranging from a one day general awareness or half day executive awareness up to a four day advanced course for experienced or developing purchasing staff and potentially some key stakeholders. All our Category Management courses are structured around our standard Category Management process or alternatively can be customised around your company specific process.

This is our most popular range of courses and essential for any company embarking on or attempting to re-establish a Category Management program.

Our experienced trainers bring the training to life using a combination of inspirational tuition, facilitated debate, group work and carefully selected case studies. For the three and four day courses there are options for delegates to work on their own categories in break out sessions with full facilitation support.

Category Management training should be considered in conjunction with a customised category management process together with supporting tools and templates, developed around your language and the needs of your business or our Purchasing Academy. We can offer these separately or for a large program talk to us regarding possible discounts on a complete process, toolkit and training package.

Executive Awareness (half day)

Aimed at helping executive teams understand the concept, their role to support it and the governance required. Covers the basics of category management, the key principles and even includes some examples of how the process is applied.

Category Management Awareness (one day)

Aimed at both general purchasing staff and stakeholders. Provides a introduction to the overall process and the principles employed. Includes case studies and a closer look at a selection of some of the core tools.

Category Management Intermediate (two day)

A general introduction to Category Management aimed at both purchasing staff and stakeholders. Takes delegates through the process and approach up to ‘implementation’ covering core principles and the majority of the tools and techniques up to  this point in the process.

Category Management Advanced (three or four day)

Our most popular course. Aimed at experienced or developing purchasing practitioners. Takes delegates through the entire process and core principles in detail with a selection of case studies used to illustrate the power in effective application of the process. This course is available with the option to work on actual categories within your business as part of the workshop.