Category managers face growing complexity — shifting market dynamics, fragmented tools and the challenge of aligning procurement strategies with business goals. Many operate with limited market insights and take a transactional approach, making it harder to balance cost, risk and innovation.
GEP’s Intelligent Category Management, powered by GEP QUANTUM™, is the only AI-driven, end-to-end solution providing real-time visibility and control across every category activity. It integrates predictive insights, advanced cost modeling and deep procurement expertise so that businesses can optimize spend, reduce risk and drive strategic value.
Powerful Ways to Drive Category Management Transformation
Take control of every aspect of category management with AI-driven intelligence and real-time insights. Get a clear view of market trends, suppliers, and costs, streamline workflows, and drive bigger, faster impact. From smarter sourcing to proactive risk management, our powerful tools help you cut costs, boost efficiency, and stay ahead of the market.
Category Intelligence
Gain real-time insights into market trends, purchasing patterns, cost drivers and competitive insights. Integrate with spend analysis to develop data-driven category decisions and strategies that continuously improve.
Supplier Intelligence
Discover and identify best-fit suppliers with supplier performance, risk factor and competitive analysis. Set KPIs, track sourcing, optimize costs, enhance diversity and sustainability, and mitigate risks.
Cost Intelligence
Unlock savings with AI-powered spend classification. Our solution cleanses and normalizes data for precise analytics with self-correcting classifications. Use should-cost modeling, cost breakdowns and real-time “what-if” scenarios for data-driven decisions.
Create and Refine Category Strategies
Develop long-term, adaptable category strategies with integrated spend, supplier, and market intelligence, enhanced by AI-driven recommendations. Track performance in real time, adapt to market changes, reduce risks and stay aligned with business goals.
Execute & Track Category Strategies
Accelerate savings and streamline project management with real-time collaboration. Gain full pipeline visibility, automate workflows and track KPIs to ensure on-track execution. Monitor savings and outcomes in real time, validate budgets with stakeholders and drive continuous improvement.
360 Category Workbench
Gain full category oversight with a centralized workbench for end-to-end visibility, analytics and strategic insight. Build strategies, track results and align with business goals. The AI-powered Action Center flags value leakage in real time, with alerts and recommendations to protect savings and performance.
Unleash Predictive Intelligence for Balanced Cost, Risk and Sustainability
- Define new category profiles through creating or importing category taxonomy
- Set up category profiles with spend channels, risk assessments and policies
- Instantly view category spend and suppliers based on classified and enriched data
- Get timely external market insights to stay current on category- and commodity-level developments
- Leverage seamlessly integrated spend, supplier, sourcing and commodity data to implement, configure and analyze mid-term and long-term category strategies and sourcing processes
- Monitor category spend and identify trends by commodity, business unit, region and supplier
- Leverage intelligent spend views: global supplier regional spend, actual vs. budget, contracted vs. non-contracted spend by category, etc.
- Monitor supplier profiles and statistics to track performance against key metrics
- Integrate enterprise-wide documents to aggregate your spend based on targeted categories
- Conduct supplier analysis with integrated intelligence
- Set measurable KPIs and objectives
- Optimize costs, foster diversity, drive sustainability and mitigate risk
- Integrate spend profiles and compare with market indices
- Track performance and make informed decisions
What Sets Us Apart: Smarter, Faster, AI-Driven
Break free from fragmented, outdated category management. GEP’s AI-powered platform centralizes every aspect of category strategy, seamlessly integrates with your procurement ecosystem, and delivers real-time intelligence to drive better decisions.
Centralized End-to-End Solution
Manage all category activities on a single AI-powered platform. Analyze spend, understand market trends, gain real-time insights, create strategy and plans, execute category strategies, and track outcomes continuously — all in one place.
Integrated Through Total Orchestration
Easily connect with any source-to-pay suite using prebuilt connectors. Enable frictionless data sharing, streamline workflows and reduce engineering bottlenecks to accelerate decision-making and execution.
Real-Time Market Intelligence
Stay ahead with real-time insights and 100,000+ global price indices. Combine internal and external data for a full market view. Benchmark performance, spot opportunities and create actionable plans to balance cost, risk, complexity and resources.
AI Recommendations and Execution
Use Gen AI with agentic capabilities to assess disruptions, recommend actions and automate execution for seamless implementation. Optimize supplier selection, refine award scenarios and streamline decision-making. Access item-level insights with automated category updates for real-time adaptability and efficiency.
Expert Performance Benchmarking
Gain a competitive edge with expert-led benchmarking. Use anonymized industry data to assess procurement performance, identify gaps and set category-specific KPIs. Access strategic insights from GEP’s Market Intelligence team to drive continuous improvement, optimize efficiencies and maximize value.
Advanced Cost Modeling
Gain a strategic edge with advanced cost modeling. Perform precise should-cost analyses, detailed breakdowns and dynamic “what-if” scenarios using 5,000+ prebuilt models. Uncover key cost drivers to optimize sourcing, enhance supplier negotiations and unlock maximum savings.
Key Benefits of Intelligent Category Management
- Gain total visibility into all categories and suppliers to identify savings opportunities
- Identify cost drivers and boost the bottom line
- Develop and execute category strategies while tracking performance and driving innovation
- Enhance collaboration and strengthen supplier relationships
- Optimize costs, align value and boost profitability for maximum value from procurement spend
- Mitigate risks related to supply, suppliers and supply chain
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