Category Management
A framework to give you a competitive edge.
When it comes to dominating the categories in which you compete, you need a strategy that incorporates market realities but also aligns with your organization’s expertise and goals. ProcureAbility works with your procurement team to drive results with a fact-based, holistic approach that ensures alignment with the goals and objectives of your individual business units and the overall enterprise.
Each year, we’ll conduct a Spend and Opportunity Assessment to help you decide where to focus your attention.
- Our Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Development processes will ensure you are driving value while proactively mitigating market risk and potential disruptions in the supply chain.
- The Category Strategy process we conduct annually will help you develop the optimal go-to-market strategies for the categories that matter the most for today and tomorrow, while providing valuable input for new sourcing opportunities and further category segmentation.
If you want to better integrate procurement and materials management into your business planning cycle and gain confidence you are making the right investments in the right places, then you should be partnering with a firm that focuses exclusively on procurement. For more than 25 years, ProcureAbility has worked across industries to help procurement teams be more strategic and forward-thinking, improving their predictability and achieving significant cost savings along the way.
Our experts are your experts – let’s start collaborating today.
How can ProcureAbility help?
- Align procurement and supply chain with business unit objectives and corporate strategy
- Integrate procurement and materials management into the business planning cycle
- Enhance total lifecycle value through well-defined category strategies
- Proactively mitigate market risk and breaks in supply chain continuity
- Improve cost schedule and predictability with active involvement in capital projects
Nicole has designed procurement frameworks, operations, and policies and built procurement teams from the ground up. She has also developed strategic global procurement strategies for a broad range of categories, provided targeted coaching for procurement leaders and category managers, and designed and mobilized complex regional and global procurement operations in various industries including manufacturing, construction, and business services. Her key focusses are procurement transformation and change management.
Nicole has earned two Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Pittsburgh; one in Germanic History and Language and the other in Communications Rhetoric accompanied by a diploma in European Studies. Nicole has been awarded the prestigious FedEx Five Star Service award for demonstrating outstanding business achievements in innovation, collaboration, efficiency, and profitability during the fiscal year. She has also received a Siemens Brava award. Nicole enjoys travel, marathon running, spending time with friends and family, and learning new hobbies such as playing the violin.
