Track8
The strategic procurement excellence toolkit
Future Purchasing has been a centre of excellence in the design and implementation of strategic procurement since 2003. Track8 is Future Purchasing’s proprietary strategic procurement toolkit, providing the frameworks, tools, processes, and templates that unlock strategic excellence across category management, supplier management and strategic alignment activities.
Market-leading processes that work, toolkits that teams adopt
The Track8 procurement toolkit has been developed over 5,000+ hours based on more than 200 client implementations and keeps evolving alongside the research from the Global Category Management Report. Built on deep subject matter expertise and insights, lean processes, creative design, and semiotics, it helps ambitious teams build enduring capabilities.
Flexible blueprints, tailored to your unique needs
Track8 consists of a structured library of high-impact processes, flexible tools, and compelling summaries for each of the critical steps in the processes of category management, supplier management, and strategic alignment. The blueprints are fully flexible and can replace, adapt, or supplement established ways of working. We work with your team to ensure you “make them your own” to appeal to both procurement professionals and business stakeholders.
Clear guidance along structured processes
Track8 gives users clearly defined steps and actions for completing process steps within the framework. They have multiple levels of detail for different processes and audiences – from simple one-page summaries for stakeholders through to level 4 detail project plans. They define the specific templates and guides that should be used and define the necessity in line with different category complexities.
Structured templates for focused creativity
Each process step and guide comes with a set of clear, attractive, and easy-to-complete templates that are designed to prompt insight, capture knowledge, identify opportunities, and tell compelling stories. The templates consolidate into attractive strategy documents that get signed off at defined decision gates while being easy to present and for stakeholders to consume.
Easy-to-follow and repeatable ‘How-to’ guides
Templates in Track8 are supported by easy-to-understand guides that provide category and supplier managers with information on every step, activity, and strategic tool in the processes. They are designed to provide a learning resource that can be regularly accessed when using related templates. The language used is simple and consistent, and supported by practical checklists to support their application.
Embedded governance for reaching strategic excellence
Track8 has regular reporting and progress reviews built into the process, covering the completion of activity steps and key outcomes such as stakeholder engagement, insight development, and value delivery. The Future Purchasing Category Strategy Assessment reinforces learning and ensures consistency in expectations and strategy documentation. It is used to evaluate category and supplier strategies against set ‘standards’ and to drive governance across processes and behaviours.
AI Category Management Agent
With the increasing scope and complexity of Category Management, the continued pressure on headcount, and the evolution of AI in Procurement, we are leveraging our deep insight and expertise to increase the availability of best-in-class category strategies through the Track8 AI Category Management Agent. From spend analysis to business requirement gathering, from market analysis to strategy recommendations, leverage our purpose-built technology to deliver more value faster.
Benefits
22
Years embedded experience
5K+
Development hours
200+
Client implementations
12K+
Professional users
Upgrade your category strategies
Interested in a solid process and framework for delivering your procurement strategies? Get on track with the most holistic strategic procurement toolkit.