This lesson develops practical capability in Category Management, Specifications, Sourcing, Supplier Selection, Contracts, and Engagement within ISO 20400 Lead Manager. Activities reflect a procurement function integrating environmental, social, ethical, economic, and governance priorities across major spend categories, keeping responsibilities, decisions, evidence, exceptions, and improvement actions connected.
The work contributes to the wider course objective to lead sustainable procurement governance, strategy, risk assessment, category decisions, supplier engagement, performance reporting, and improvement.
The instructor traces a realistic case involving a procurement function integrating environmental, social, ethical, economic, and governance priorities across major spend categories. The demonstration shows how to define scope and criteria, collect evidence, record decisions in category and supplier decision workbook, and challenge the condition where sourcing operates differently from the approved method.
Complete a controlled exercise for Category Management, Specifications, Sourcing, Supplier Selection, Contracts, and Engagement. Establish responsibilities and acceptance criteria, examine the case where sourcing operates differently from the approved method, reach a supported conclusion, and preserve the result in category and supplier decision workbook.
Begin with the earliest point where expected practice and observed evidence diverge. Separate a missing record from an ineffective process, and distinguish role ambiguity from a control or competence failure. Treat “sourcing operates differently from the approved method” as a hypothesis until the response is tested against the applicable criteria and intended outcome.
Learners can apply Category Management, Specifications, Sourcing, Supplier Selection, Contracts, and Engagement, explain the reasoning used, and defend the result through category and supplier decision workbook.