Advanced Category Management Report: Sri Suntra Travel Company

This report provides a detailed analysis of advanced category management within the context of procurement and supply chain management, specifically focusing on the Sri Suntra Travel Company. The report begins with an introduction to category management, emphasizing its strategic importance in organizing procurement resources to achieve company growth. It then delves into the prerequisites for implementing a category management plan, including the formation of cross-functional teams and the analysis of spend data using various methods such as cost, ABC, profitability, and CVP analysis. The report highlights the importance of identifying and prioritizing opportunities through the RAQSCI framework, which encompasses regulation, assurance of supply, quality, service, cost, commercial aspects, and innovation. Furthermore, it outlines strategies for category identification, spend analysis, and the application of the Kraljic matrix to segment suppliers. The report also addresses the challenges of implementation and provides strategies to mitigate them, offering a comprehensive overview of the category management process from initiation to implementation and maintenance, including the identification of key performance indicators and the ongoing monitoring of category performance.

Advanced Category Management in
Procurement and Supply Chain
Management

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Main Body..................................................................................................................................3
Pre-requisites- initiate and prepare.........................................................................................3
Identifying and prioritising opportunities..............................................................................5
Prepare and present the strategies..........................................................................................7
Implementing changes and maintain......................................................................................9
Conclusion................................................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................12

Introduction
Advanced category management is one of the strategic approaches which organised
and make procurement resources to focus and manage on the specific area of spend which are
basically related to growth and sector of the company. This is the step which are used and
manage through collation and make organisational spend to focus on procurement on
different discreet products, work and make services. This is mainly related to the purchasing,
procurement and sourcing the data and products which are basically related to different
source and make data analysis. All it is related to growth and sector of the company which
are needed to be announced for working and making any type of procurement plan. To make
strategic procurement plan and decided for working on the strategic procurement plan is all
related to implementation and success of the company in an organised manner
(Abdollahnejadbarough and et.al., 2020). Category management is al related to four main
stages which are discuss below and make sure to work and manage on the basis of plan and
implement effective strategies’ to mitigate the risk. The chosen organisation for this project is
Sri Suntra Travel Company which has been set up in Malaysia which provide a relevant
support and industry for providing best and effective way to make manufacturing company to
assign and related to measure task and provide procurement plan. In this company car
manufacturing department and tourism industry are work and make category management
plan to make success in implementation success.
Main Body
Pre-requisites- initiate and prepare
This is basically related to condition of contract with guidance notes which are mainly
related to impartial use of by seller and buyer to provide a contractual basis and make support
customer purchase his requirement and make effective supply chain them. The need of the
company is to make set up and make sure to work and manage analysis in procurement need
within organisation (Avittathur and Ghosh, 2020). This is the process of collecting, collating,
maintain, categorising and analysing spend and make expenditure for understanding to
determine the growth and success. There are different method and analysis of the category
which are use and make cost analysis, ABC analysis, Profitability analysis and CVP analysis.
Category assessment plan is basically related to gap opportunities and make sure to work and
need SWOT analysis in order to make preliminary category plan which is completed. Further

it could be used and make product for launching changes to being make effective
recommendation within a category.
In the chosen organisation it is basically related to different sector and growth to build
a team and make individual performance and functions to make a department within an
organisation. That may be helpful in managing and organising the team spirit to work and
manage the task of category management (Bag and et.al., 2020). Cross functional team are
basically related to the growth and prospect of marketing, product, sales and customer
success. It is all related to growth and success which are associated to measure representative
achievements.
Any type of organisation either effective team building or applying respective growth
of the company to work and manage their effective approaches in the team management. In
the different functional area related to sales, marketing, manufacturing and customer process.
There are certain benefits which are related to growth of company in an organised manner:
 This must be related to improved coordination and make sure to work on the
functional areas for the growth of company to achieve. Having a better coordination is
related to the success and measurement which are related to special and achievable
growth within the society (Birkel, and Hartmann, 2020). This could be related to
effective functional area within chosen organisation and make sure to work and
manage the activities in manufacturing department.

 This another advantage and role within the organisation is to make effective
innovation and make sure to work and manage products to related process and
development. This will be helpful if all the team members and company are basically
related to the achievement and make sure to manage process of the company. This
will be helpful in communicate the role and make management application for
establishing effective innovation strategies to work and make sustainable approaches
in the chosen tourism industry.
 This could be related to the measure the success and growth which are not basically
related to make complex situation of the project. But due to having inefficiency of the
project it is important for them to work and manage the drastic reduce and make a
recycle procedure which are helpful by working in a cross sectional team (Gamble,
2020). So it the place of instead of passing customer and provide a humble request,
this is important for the company to work together and resolve the problem which are
arises in having category management procedure.
So it can be said that within an organisation it is important to make a cross sectional
team and work according to their need and category management plan. For the chosen
company the category management plan is basically related to the manufacturing department
of the team. As they wanted to make effective tourism company by producing their own
purchase which are requirement and make effective contractor supply them. Which are
basically are related to contractual team which are related to guidance notes (Huang and
et.al., 2020). This is basically related to next big thing which are basically associated to
management process to make executive mandate is not just for affording permission and
make effective management team to drive the change system.
Identifying and prioritising opportunities
After knowing about the procurement plan of the company it is important to them for
understand the nature and described the initiative which are essential for the company. The
company are using RAQSCI framework which are related to staircase of the company’s
growth and opportunities. This will helpful and essential to make hierarchal business
opportunity and make better understanding growth. There are major similarity and techniques
which are helpful in project management tool and make effective growth within society
(Khan and et.al., 2020). This is basically related to complete need to work and manage
confused when embarking for planning process. This plan is very helpful in collecting
information which are highly related to growth and success of the initiatives which are

helpful and essential to work and manage RQUSCI model for the growth of the company.
This model is helpful in making procurement objectives at the level of stages to work and
ascertain the procurement objectives. Failure of the procurement plan is reflect the ineffective
approach in procurement plan and needed to be redesigned and selected through the use of
project. Its six component are basically related to effective growth and definition that explain
below:
Regulation: This factor is basically related to the all rules and regulation which van be
ascertain and make regulatory standards (Mills, Evans and Candlish, 2020). This is reflective
and associated through the project management team of Malaysia which include the basic
standard of the company and work as per that rules and regulation.
Assurance of supply: This is related to the chosen company’s project which make category
management effective supply for the growth and achievement of company. This is basically
related to availability and accessibility of the company and make a realistic approach for the
growth and achievement of the nature steps. Supply must be effective and assure the demand
of customer to provide availability to work and manage their lifestyle products.
Quality: Quality is the work which are submitted by the company’s manufacturing team in
order to complete and assign the task (Mojumder and Singh, 2021). It is important for the
company to work and manage standard in quality assurance and make fitness for the purpose
to work and manage effective sources. This would be helpful for the manufacturing team to
work and associated through different sources.
Service: This is related to the applicable standards which are needed to be assure while
completing and setting standard for working and managing effective source within society.
This is related to measure and make effective improvement plan to manage and needed to be
more effective services for company.
Cost: The new and designing product and survives which are basically related to the growth
of company and its prices which are used to make implementation on the society. It could be
related to cost of the price for products, services and reduction facility that must be realistic
approaches to work and make effective growth within society.
Commercial: For improving the growth and make marketing of the product it is important
for them to work and manage their acceptability in society. While having the promotional

opportunity in the company they should make sure to make effective advertisement and
commercial growth in company to work and manage more realistic approaches in society.
Innovation: This is the last stage of the chosen model as it is related to continuous
improvement, getting better consumer experience, high competitive advantages and make
efficiency within the society and make projects. All is basically related to the regional growth
and effective opportunity to work and manage their potential on the company and expand the
growth in market.
This is the plan which is helpful and effective for making procurement decision and
work as per the growth and achievement of the plan. This could be related to measuring smart
objective and it is basically related to procurement plan which are helpful in making prioritize
the growth and success of the company (Nayak and Choudhary, 2020). With the help of
stakeholder analysis they can be identified the definite change and policies to work in the
different model and growth.
Prepare and present the strategies
Identify the category
This is related to the identifying the activity which are related to make procurement
plan and make sure to work as per the activity based situation. This project is related to
making their own car services which help them to work and manage their customer to sustain
long and serve better in their desired area. As the chosen company are serving their traveling
site in more than one country so it would be beneficial for them to work and manage their
growth when they have their own cab facilities in different countries (Nayak and Choudhary,
2020). This is related to further spend analysis which are helpful in knowing the situation that
may be related to total expenditure and demand of the customers and their raw material.
Which must be helpful in analysing the situation.
Using of karjilic model
This is the part of supply chain management system that must be related to
segmenting and vendor base. It must be related to chosen strategies and make supplier
relationship management system which are helpful in assigning staff and make the map of
different suppliers and product related raw materials. This is the matrix which are most
associated and related to the development of different suppliers. This is basically related to
four main matrix which are associated with the supply chain products. These products are

mainly related to purchase and sell of suppliers in a company. The four main quadrants of the
project is associated to:
Leverage items: these are the items which are having high profitability impact but at
the same time they have low supply risk. These type of items are very helpful in assigning the
profit and make higher level of importance. Further make low in complexity of the supply
market. Which have been used and manage the different sources in order to make essential
activities and complexity. The main example for working in the tendering and fix up the
prices to work and manage effective tendering support.
Strategic Items: This matrix is basically related to the measure the high profit impact
and at the same time high amount of supply risk. That could be related to high profit, critical
avability, supply constraints and having the high risk of the products. These items are known
as critical item and risky as well. They are able to need recognition and switch the barriers are
so high and make sole sourcing situation (Nazari-Ghanbarloo, 2020). This could be related to
different sources and applicability to manage the strategic items.
Bottleneck Items: These are the item which are relevant to low in profit making and
high in supply risk. Further it can be said that it make a low market importance of the item
and make high complexity of the supply china market for chosen product line. This will
include the car care items and any precious car design as they are helpful in assigning and
managing task at different sources.
Non-Critical items: This may be related to low profit impact and low supply of
market, as it would be associated to importance of item and make low complexity of supply
market essentials. These are the basic items which are related to stationery and consumable
items for repeated order and item of the company. This could be related to different sources
which are security and make strategic critical and make technical acquisition and make
advantages.

This is all related to the growth and achievement of the company and make sure to
work and analysis the concept to earn and make the high brand image in front of consumer.
This is all related to make sustainable changes and further apply for the drastic supply chain
management programme.
Implementing changes and maintain
Challenges
While working on the strategic management plan is basically to work and manage due
to having some strategic plan in order to make appropriate products which are helpful in
effective item and being sources only for the suppliers who are really interested in the
company and growth of the business products (Shekarian and Mellat Parast, 2020). There are
various challenges which are needed to be assigned and make sure to work completion is
started on the strategic management procedure.
 Product make the liability on the company as they had to purchase more and more
vehicles in order to ensure and make success on the growth of the company. For this
the chosen company are able to make plan and ensure the strategic changes.
 This could be related to very long lead time and make able to work on the production
capacity of the products and services. This could be related to measure successful

changes and make sure to work on the lead time to purchase and make availability to
their suppliers.
 Relative power of the buying organisation and make is low and make total
dependence on supplier for the growth and make challenges for the growth and sector
of different stakeholders to promote and sustain the growth of the company. This
could be related to declining growth and make challenges to make effective
stakeholders opportunities for the identifying stakeholders.
 Another challenges is to make effective operational risk and associated to work and
manage procured to work on the basis of sole supplier and make sure to work and
manage for the growth and sole supplier. It is basically helpful and make associated
for functioning and able to work on the sole supplier activities. This risk is majorly
base on the legacy risk that may exist and work on the company for completing basic
requirement and completion of the challenges.
Risk mitigation strategies
In order to make effective and manage different style it is important for the companies to
work and manage their different sources which are applicable and make resourceful activities
for understanding and making essential concept to work on procurement data. Some of the
major risk mitigation strategies are given below which are helpful in analysing the strategies:
 This could be basically related to maintain strategic partnership that would be helpful
for the companies to work and manage. As this can be related to the growth and sector
of the company to work and manage effective resources in a team.
 There is always a need to understand and make supplies for having perspective
balance sheet and make supplies to work and manage the sources, risk and
relationship (Vishnubhotla, Pati and Padhi, 2020). All is basically helpful and make
sure about working in strategic management and able to work and make effective
relationship with their suppliers.
 Next strategy is to make work and make collaboration to assign the task rather than
supporting competition. This is very important for the companies to work and manage
effective sources which are applicable to company and make collaborative
commitment to reduce the supply chain management process.
 Another strategy for the company is to make growth mode, having effective
procurement strategies and may focus on the supplier for making management and
development for working innovation and basically helpful in getting fair price and

make short costing strategies in order to analysis the growth and make success in
market.
 The team member of the company are related and highly supported in the managing
capabilities to work and manage people skills (Zhang and et.al., 2020). This could be
related to the capabilities and expertise nature of an employee which are helpful for
the growth of company to work and assign on the nature and task of sub-optimal
performance in category management activities.
Conclusion
From the above report it can be concluded that the company has to make and work on the
effective category management report which are helpful in managing different countries and
assign on the chosen area for the production facilities. There are number of companies which
are working in the travel and tourism industry and they all are adopting effective growth and
consequences for the company’s growth and make effective talent management which are
essential for supply chain management process. This has to be implemented in the major
travel and Tourism Company to design right model and work on the basis of management to
assign the task and make sure to work on the effective procurement plan.

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