category selection for purchasing buyers
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Category selection for purchasing buyers
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• What is a category?• Why are categories important in purchasing?• How to select a category on Kopiki?• Unable to find the category you want?
Category Selection
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What is a category?
• A type, or a group of things having some features that are the same– Cambridge Dictionary
• e.g. there are three categories of accommodation – standard, executive, and deluxe
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Why are categories important in purchasing?
• Filter the available suppliers to a more relevant and manageable pool• Buyer selection criteria and purchasing process
may vary by category– e.g a different process of selection questions may be
used for engineering equipment purchases when compared with service purchases such as marketing
• Tracking and analysis of spend activities by category
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How to select a category on Kopiki?
• Select the category of goods and services that most accurately reflects your needs• Over 10,000 categories are available across
products and services• Categories are organised into hierarchies
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Search broad - discovery
• When looking for a range of suppliers across a broad category of requirements – consider selecting a general term – e.g. Fruit, vegetables and related products
• This will return suppliers that can provide any type of fruit, or vegetable or similar product
• Some of these suppliers may provide a wide range of products and others may provide only one
• This gives the buyer a broad overview of the market
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Search narrow - focussed
• When looking for a range of suppliers for a specific narrow requirement – consider selecting a tightly worded requirement– e.g. carrot
• This will return only those suppliers who have included carrot on their list of products and services they can provide
• Some of these suppliers may provide a wide range of products, but always including “carrot”, and others may provide only one product which is “carrot”.
• This provides the buyer with a deep view of the supply chain for a specific product or service of interest
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Unable to find the category you want?
• Sometimes it can be hard to find the category you are looking for
• Try to think of a more general wording and look for that in the available categories
• Contact Kopiki for advice, we are always happy to help and can either– direct you to an appropriate category– create a new category
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Questions?
Getting Started with Kopiki
Contact [email protected] Marketing Officer