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The 2nd CIPSA Category Management Forum - Sydney 25th,26th & 27th March

03 Feb 2009

Category Management - the next big thing or simply a fad surfing the boardroom?Given the interest in and importance attached to Category Management, It would appear that it is most definitely the former. This was further highlighted by John Paterson, Vice-president and CPO for IBM, at the recent 4th CIPSA Annual Conference, who explained that category management was the major focus of IBM’s centralised procurement function, ahead of operational and transactional sourcing, adding that “value comes from delivering savings, not processing transactions”.
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