The concept of category management is familiar to those in retail, who look to manage clusters of items within a shop environment, but it also a way for companies to buy more effectively and to ...

Category management is a procurement philosophy developed in the private sector, in which the full range of products purchased by a company — or in GSA’s case the federal government — is broken down ...

In a new report, GAO found OMB's category management initiative focused too much on how to buy things at the expense of helping agencies determine what goods and services they actually need.

Mr. Foley said McCormick adopted a category management mindset right before the pandemic and has carried it through over the past few years. He pointed to the company’s renovation of its entire ...