Unlock Your Path to Category Management Excellence

Assess the maturity of your category management across 6 dimensions in a 3-hour expert workshop and gain a clear pathway to becoming a leader in Category Management. The assessment will leave you with and actionable priorities and the opportunity to unlock 68% of value that most organizations leave on the table. 

The world’s most insightful Category Management Maturity Assessment

The Future Purchasing CatMan Maturity Assessment™ is the world’s most insightful tool focused on category management performance improvement:

• • Identify Strengths and Priorities: Pinpoint category management strengths and priority areas for improvement and development.
  • Estimate Value Potential: Gauge additional value available by becoming a high-performing category management operation.
  • Estimate CatMan Resource Efficiency: Compare your Procurement team resource efficiency versus industry leaders. 
  • Establish a Focused Development Roadmap: Build a bespoke pathway to strengthen your CatMan approach via a 3-hour leadership workshop. 
  • Track Performance Over Time: Establish a baseline for demonstrating and tracking category management performance.

How does the Maturity Assessment work? 

The assessment is structured around six proven dimensions of category management excellence: CatMan Strategy, Stakeholder Engagement, Organisation Structure, Capability & Mindset, Process and Technology, and Value Impact.

Participants complete a 15-minutes online survey. Future Purchasing will consolidate, analyse, and benchmark the individual responses against industry leaders to form the basis of a high energy 3-hour workshop that we facilitate with your procurement leadership team.

Performance can be analysed across your organisation as a single entity or for specific procurement teams or business units, allowing relative comparison across the organisation.

Precise recommendations are documented against each question and prioritised into a clear roadmap to category management excellence – tailored for your organisation.

Six Dimensions of Category Management Excellence

Your performance will be benchmarked across 60+ KPIs

Choose FP for Your CatMan Maturity Assessment 

• World Leading CatMan Expertise: We own the world’s largest and most targeted benchmark data on the key success factors that deliver CatMan excellence.
• Sector and Global Benchmarking: We use our rich source data (2,200 company responses and 110,000 data points) to benchmark you against your sector and global leaders.
• Category Management Specialists Driving Innovation: Our approach is validated through 100+ client implementations over 21 years and our consultants have 20 years+ experience.
• Customised Recommendations: We work with you to develop tailored recommendations that drive capability uplift and value delivery, including the digitisation of category management.