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• This business report has been used for evaluating the category and contract management in Eco2Solar Company.
• In particular, Eco2Solar operates to improve their project management (PM) and Cost Management (CM) as part of their category management has been evaluated.
• The areas of focus has included an evaluation of requirements for initiating and preparing category management, strategic and conventional sourcing process and role in contract management, tools and techniques for mapping categories of direct and indirect expenditure.
• From the findings obtained, innovative measures for improving the supply chain in light of categories and category management has been recommended.
• Further, in this business report, the contract administration and contract management in case of category management has similarly been evaluated in context of category management this is with assessment of risks and implementation of risk management techniques in contracts being reviewed in context of category management.
• In order to appreciate the best practice in category and contract management in the selected Eco2Solar construction spend area, use of quantitative and desk research has been pursued to obtain relevant data.
• Additionally, different tools have been applied such as Mendelow Stakeholders analysis, CIPS Category Management Cycle, CIPS Contract Management Cycle, Suppliers positioning, PESTLE analysis and SWOT analysis.
• Considering this business report findings, Eco2Solar need to improve their approach for risk management and efficiency and effectiveness of category and contract management.
• From these finding, the stakeholders collaboration in Eco2Solar need to be improved which can be done by embrace of blockchain technologies.
• Also, by identifying their PS&M teams training and capacity development, they would be able to improve on their category management. In the contemporary procurement environment, the training and capacity development has been noted as the best practice to manage gaps in their operations. Also, the findings indicate the need for Eco2Solar to improve their category management of their construction spend by coming up with appropriate SLA’s agreement and KPIs while ensuring they capitalise on innovativeness.
• For the project management and cost management, this being a long-term investment would require an improved auditing. This can entail embrace of analytics to analyse and present contract management data and appropriate management strategy.
• The importance of improved collaboration is ensuring stakeholders active involvement and awareness on core decisions made as this could harness their practice, contribution and suggestions noted.
• By successfully pursuing stakeholder analysis, it is important to maintain stakeholders relations which promote Eco2Solar organisation image and increase their market share.

• In summary, in this report, sourcing approaches have been evaluated.
• By focusing on ADNOC fuel main category of spend and other spend categories, the sourcing approaches have been identified to include multiple, single, dual, and sole.
• In ADNOC, the procurement process includes a detailed process that is defined by the transitioning of sourced products and services to the organisation.
• The identified spend categories are strategic, leverage, bottleneck, and non-critical items. Also, the products have been categorised into those with high-profit implications, risks incurred, and reliable.
• In the identified area of spend, multiple sourcing is preferred due to the critical nature of the identified spend category.

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