The Strategic Purchsaing Handbook: How to Maximize Business Profitability through Effective Category Management offers a set of tools and processes to deliver value and cost savings when sourcing and purchasing. Category Management is a technique used to understand markets, analyse spend and make purchasing decisions which save money. It is about a pathway from accepting mediocre goods and services at high cost, to effective supply management which delivers real value. By altering how goods are categorised and supplied it helps shift sourcing from being an error-prone transaction to creating va.