Category Management Process

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How to Build a Category Strategy Plan That is Simple and Practical

2 Mar at 12:00 pm

Discover How to Build a Category Strategy Plan in 4 Steps Category planning and category strategising can be a topic…

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Kraljic Model – The Key to Smarter Buying

September 15, 2022

Get Your Suppliers ‘Sorted’: Start Here The Kraljic Model helps businesses manage their supply chains by segmenting suppliers into classes…

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Can Jack’s Tackle Discounters Without Cannibalising Tesco Sales?

August 19, 2022

Jack’s Tesco Sales On a grey, washed-out Fenland autumn morning in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, the new Jack’s store is not hard to…

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10 Ways to Improve Your Commercial Awareness

August 13, 2022

Commercial Awareness Understanding how your business works and makes money is essential to improving your overall ROI (Return On Investment)…

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Online Grocery: Free Whitepaper About the Rapid Grocery Market

May 18, 2022

Online Grocery has Been Around a While, but Rapid Grocery and the Likes of Getir, DoorDash, Gorillas, and Tesco Whoosh…

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Supplier Management: UK Grocery Multiples & Their Supplier Bases

April 4, 2022

Supplier Management is Not Only for Christmas…. David and Goliath Your day to day interactions with UK supermarket buyers may…

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7 Benefits of Category Management and Why You Should take Notice

March 28, 2022

The Benefits of Category Management are Improved Category Performance for Everyone Involved To realise these benefits the range of products is…

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Cost Price Increase in the UK Post-Pandemic

February 26, 2022

No Not Another US Import Crime Series With a Banging Theme Tune by The Who But Still Plenty of Potential…

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Planograms: the importance of Retail Space Planning

February 22, 2022

Let’s Discuss the Role of Planograms in Retail Space Optimisation For decades, Planograms have been the primary approach to retail…

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Aggressive But Inexperienced: Perils of the New Breed of Buyers

February 21, 2022

Does Youth Add up to Being Aggressive But Inexperienced? The new cohort of UK supermarket buyers are young, aggressive but…

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Category Manager e-Assessment

January 25, 2022

Are You a Great Category Manager? Category management is about identifying opportunities, selling opportunities, and landing opportunities that drive category…

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42 One-Sentence Category Management Tips to Identify, Sell & Land More

January 21, 2022

Identify, Sell and Land More Opportunites with These Category Management Tips Category management is the process of grouping like products into…