Question:

Advanced Practitioner Corporate Award

Assessment Code: APCM

This assessment tests the learning outcomes and module content of:

Module: Advanced Category Management in Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Task

You are required to select an example of a category of procurement or a product, service or works bought by your organisation and create a category plan.  This should include an implementation plan which also identifies the challenges in implementing your plan and your strategies for mitigating the challenges.

Solution/Answer:

1.0 Introduction

Category planning is identified as a process of developing a category plan aligned to the customers’ business objectives with a strategic approach of value maximization, risks reduction and effective management of supply of goods and services.  According to CIPS (2013), category planning is supposed to be aligned with the business objectives and its development with key customer stakeholders. Additionally, successful category plans are supposed to be influencing the sourcing strategies and different contract management initiatives. From a general perspective, O’brien (2019) defines category management as a supplier process of managing the categories as strategic business units, producing enhanced business results by having a focus on customer’s delivery. As shown in figure 1, category management is categorized into category planning, sourcing, and supplier management.

Figure 1: Planning Fitness in the Category Management

In most organisations, category planning is implemented by sourcing managers to rationalize their suppliers, buying power aggregation, driving down pricing and ultimately improving their supplier performance against their contract. This is done to produce an interactive and collaborative business process where the distributors and suppliers operate as partners for enabling their creation and management of customer-oriented category plans. Similarly, in the category planning, the best practice is alignment with customer business plans, procurement targets and customer stakeholder strategies. Prior to the category planning, diagnostics is implemented for developing category profile and market research and intelligence. After category planning the category management is implemented. With this background, this assessment intends to create a category plan of a category of a product procured by the Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) in Dubai UAE. This would be inclusive of an implementation plan and identification of challenges in implementing the plan and strategies of mitigating the challenges.

2.0 Background of Organisation and Selected Category of a Product

2.1 Introduction to DCT

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