Category management
Reducing costs and optimizing the use of available resources are key objectives in the complexity of your merchandise management. Taking your individual requirements and a holistic category management strategy into account, we can help you achieve the potential savings. Talk to us!
Your added value:
- Sustainable cost reductions for direct and indirect materials and services
- Improvement of your company's innovative strength through the targeted development of expert knowledge
- Ensuring product quality
- More efficient collaboration through cross-functional dialog
- Planned action instead of inefficient processes
Procedure for implementing category management:
SCM PLUS - your competent partner for implementing a strategic category management system
1. transparency of purchasing volumes
1.1 Product group-specific analyses
- Subdivision of your purchasing volume for goods and services into commodity groups and the associated suppliers (for group structures analogous to individual companies)
- Introduction and application of the same commodity group key with the aim of carrying out commodity group-specific analyses across several locations
2. merchandise category strategies and measures
2.1 Targeted derivation of strategies and measures
- Based on your corporate goals , the product group strategies and measures are developed together with the internal purchasing, technology, quality and logistics departments, depending on the supply and demand power for the individual product groups.
Levers in product group management
Our services:
- Successful implementation of a category management
- Creation or revision of a suitable multi-level category key
- Development of merchandise category strategies
- Creation of a template and formulation of measures
- Support in the selection of software solutions for the visualization of group-wide costs for the derivation of category strategies and measures
Benefit from our experience. We would be happy to arrange an initial non-binding consultation.
Customers about us:
Rainer WeingraberCEO - Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH
"We used SCM PLUS, in the person of Rudolf Kohlmaier, on an interim mandate to fill the position of Head of Purchasing. Mr. Kohlmaier took on responsibility from day one and brought a breath of fresh air into the company with a high level of competence, implementation skills and good cooperation. The result is improved processes and sustainable savings."
Siegfried GrasseggerAL-KO Production Austria GmbH
"Through an interim mandate, Rudolf Kohlmaier from SCM PLUS supported the change process in our purchasing department in the face of high staff turnover. Urgent and new purchasing projects, including the sourcing of new suppliers, were professionally supported. At the same time, stimulating discussions led to the start of process analyses and process optimizations. At the same time, SCM PLUS provided employee training for the entire SCM division. Many thanks for the time we spent together!"
Dr. Gerd SchreiterMember of the Executive Board - Swarovski Optik KG
"SCM PLUS has developed a very comprehensive and meaningful overview of the strengths and potentials of our purchasing organization with a high level of expertise and has mapped out clear paths for the future strengthening of the strategic and quality-oriented orientation of purchasing. The tasks were approached with a high level of professional and social competence. We can build directly on the results!"
Thomas KidschunHead of Logistics and Material Management - MV Werften GmbH
"Mr. Rudolf Kohlmaier provided support via an interim mandate in the change process, which brought about a comprehensive, cross-divisional and far-reaching change in the implementation of new strategies, systems, processes and behaviors of the stakeholders of the three shipyard locations. Mr. Kohlmaier's excellent technical expertise in the fields of purchasing, logistics and supply chain management, combined with the active integration of all project participants, were an essential building block for the successful implementation of the change process."
Harald OswaldManaging Director - AL-KO Production Austria GmbH
"Rudolf Kohlmaier from SCM PLUS provided us with perfect interim support in purchasing and also enormously developed our entire supply chain process with his professional and social skills. Through his personal work, he succeeded in taking the entire department with him in the change process. Thank you very much!"
Johannes ThalerVice President Supply Chain Management - Swarovski Optik KG
"SCM PLUS has succeeded in creating a very structured, consistent and coherent concept in the analysis of our purchasing and especially supplier management, from the analysis to the recommendations for action and the organizational structure. We had already seen some of this in the same way, but it was further sharpened and underpinned by the external view."
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